Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Greville) P.C.Silva & DeCew

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Phyllophoraceae
Genus Ahnfeltiopsis

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Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

North of Spain, 2010. 24 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

with Gymnogongrus crenulatus, Spain, North of Galicia, 2010. 24 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

middle intertidial, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Greville) P.C.Silva & DeCew middle intertidial, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007

Publication details
Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Greville) P.C.Silva & DeCew 1992: 577

Original publication: Silva, P.C. & DeCew, T.C. (1992). Ahnfeltiopsis, a new genus in the Phyllophoraceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyceae). Phycologia 31: 576-580.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ahnfeltiopsis is Ahnfeltiopsis linearis (C.Agardh) P.C.Silva & DeCew.

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

Basionym
Fucus devoniensis Greville

Type information
Type locality: Torbay, Devonshire, England (Athanasiadis 1996: 74). Type: BM

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), living in Devon, a county shire in south-western England.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus devoniensis Greville 1821
Gymnogongrus devoniensis (Greville) Schotter 1968

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chondrus celticus Kützing 1843

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Greville) P.C.Silva & DeCew)
English: Devonshire Fan Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus devoniensis Greville)
Europe: Britain (Greville 1821).

(as Gymnogongrus devoniensis (Greville) Schotter)
Ireland: Down (Dixon & Irvine 1977), Galway (Dixon & Irvine 1977), Mayo (Dixon & Irvine 1977).

Europe: Britain (Schotter 1968, Maggs, Douglas, Fenety & Bird 1992), France (Schotter 1968, Maggs, Douglas, Fenety & Bird 1992), Ireland (Guiry, Irvine & Morton 1981, Maggs, Douglas, Fenety & Bird 1992), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1985, Maggs, Douglas, Fenety & Bird 1992, Maggs, Douglas, Fenety & Bird 1992).

Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005).

(as Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Greville) P.C.Silva & DeCew)
Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Anon. 2012, Bárbara & Díaz Tapia 2012), Ireland (Hardy & Guiry 2003, Guiry 2012), Portugal (Cremades et al., 2002, Araújo et al., 2003, Pereira & Mesquita 2003, Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009), Spain (Bárbara et al. 1995, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Azaola, Bellissimo & Rull Lluch 2009, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley, Neto & Parente 2009), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004).

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

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=Ahnfeltiopsis&Species=devoniensis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2498 times since it was created.

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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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77090