Claudea elegans J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Delesseriaceae
Genus Claudea

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From: Harvey, W.H. (1858-1863). Phycologia australica. Vols 1-5. Plates I-CCC. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. Available on CD from http://www.phycology.ugent.be/harvey.

Publication details
Claudea elegans J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 122, pl. 8: figs 2-4

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, pls 7-13.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Claudea.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective B (Latin), elegant (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Oneillia elegans (J.V.Lamouroux) C.Agardh 1822

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus claudei Turner 1811
Lamourouxia elegans C.Agardh 1817

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: "Nouv. Holl." (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 453). Holotype: Peron; CN, Herb. Lamouroux (Womersley 2003: 20).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Claudea elegans J.V.Lamouroux)
Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Oliveira Filho 1977, Creed et al. 2010).

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

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

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

Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), South Australia (Womersley 2003), Tasmania (Womersley 2003), Victoria (Womersley 2003), Western Australia (Womersley 2003).

Key references
Womersley, H.B.S. (2003). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. 533. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

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

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=Claudea&Species=elegans

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 26 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 August 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 672 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Harvey, W.H. (1844). A few remarks on Claudea elegans. London Journal of Botany 3: 408-411, Plate XX.
Norris, R.E. (1987). Claudea elegans (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyceae) in Natal, its first record in the western Indian Ocean and Africa. South African Journal of Botany 53: 311-315, 6 figs.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:74483