Acrochaetium seiriolanum (Gibson) Rosenvinge
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium
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Publication details
Acrochaetium seiriolanum (Gibson) Rosenvinge 1924: 390
Original publication: Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. [i]v-xi, [1]4-252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Rhodochorton seiriolanum Gibson
Type information
Type locality: Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 115). Proviosional lectotype: BM-K (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 115).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodochorton seiriolanum Gibson 1891
Audouinella seiriolana (Gibson) P.S.Dixon 1976
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Rhodochorton seiriolanum Gibson)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Acrochaetium seiriolanum (Gibson) Rosenvinge)
Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 2012).
(as Audouinella seiriolana (Gibson) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), Ireland (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996).
Taxonomic notes
Garbary (1987: 169) cites this species as Acrochaetium seiriolanum (Gibson) Børgesen (1902).
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=seiriolanum
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=Acrochaetium&Species=seiriolanum
Created: 16 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry
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Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=366
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 19 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77154
