Bifurcaria brassiciformis (Kützing) E.S.Barton 1893

Brassicophycus sisymbrioides (Kützing) Molinari & Guiry

Current name: Brassicophycus sisymbrioides (Kützing) Molinari & Guiry
Fish Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa, August 2009 - 09 December 2011. Robert Anderson (anderson@botzoo.uct.ac.za)

Publication Details
Bifurcaria brassiciformis (Kützing) E.S.Barton 1893: 82

Published in: Barton, E.S. (1893). A provisional list of the marine algae of the Cape of Good Hope. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 31: 53-56, 81-84, 110-114, 138-144, 171-177, 202-210.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Bifurcaria is Bifurcaria tuberculata Stackhouse.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Brassicophycus sisymbrioides (Kützing) Molinari & Guiry.

Basionym
Pycnophycus brassiciformis Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "Caput bonae spei: Wenck" [Cape of Good Hope, South Africa]; (Kützing 1860: 9)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 07 February 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 April 2021

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