Acrochaetium amphiroae (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss

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 amphiroae (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss 1945: 312

Original publication: Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Colaconema amphiroae (K.M.Drew) P.W.Gabrielson

Basionym
Rhodochorton amphiroae K.M.Drew

Type information
Type locality: Whites Point, San Pedro, California, U.S.A Holotype: Gardner No. 1928; UC 276411 (Dawson 1953: 27). Notes: Isotype in AHF (sheet 8792); see Dawson (1953: 27).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium amphiroae (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss)
North America: California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979), Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), Mexico (Dawson 1953).

Source of synonymy
Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475.

Key references
Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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

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=amphiroae

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 05 October 2007 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 280 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=4909

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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.