Rhodymenia corallina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Greville

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Rhodymeniales
Family Rhodymeniaceae
Genus Rhodymenia

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Publication details
Rhodymenia corallina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Greville 1830: xlviii

Original publication: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i*-iii*], [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodymenia is Rhodymenia palmetta (Stackhouse) Greville.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Sphaerococcus corallina Bory de Saint-Vincent

Type information
Type locality: Concepción, Chile (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 369). Lectotype: PC (Womersley 1996: 86).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sphaerococcus corallina Bory de Saint-Vincent 1828

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhodymenia corallina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Greville)
North America: Gulf of California (Dawson 1941).

South America: Chile (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Falkland Islands (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Tierra del Fuego (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).

Africa: Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Papua New Guinea (Littler & Littler 2003).

Pacific Islands: French Polynesia (N'Yeurt & Payri 2010).

Key references
N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2010). Marine algal flora of French Polynesia III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 3-205.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Rhodymenia&species=corallina

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Rhodymenia&Species=corallina

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 21 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 March 2010 by M.D. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:74791