Polysiphonia fibrillosa (C.Agardh) Sprengel 1827

Current name: Leptosiphonia fibrillosa (C.Agardh) Savoie & G.W.Saunders
Location: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany) - 00 October 2008. © Wolfgang Bettighofer, www.protisten.de, image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA)

Publication Details
Polysiphonia fibrillosa (C.Agardh) Sprengel 1827: 349

Published in: Sprengel, K.[P.J.] (1827). Systema vegetabilium Editio decima sexta. Voluminis IV. Pars I. Classis 24. Vol. 4 pp. [i]-iv, [1]-592. Gottingae [Göttingen]: sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Leptosiphonia fibrillosa (C.Agardh) Savoie & G.W.Saunders.

Source of Synonymy
Savoie, A.M. & Saunders, G.W. (2018 '2019'). A molecular assessment of species diversity and generic boundaries in the red algal tribes Polysiphonieae and Streblocladieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in Canada. European Journal of Phycology 54(1): 1-25.

Basionym
Hutchinsia fibrillosa C.Agardh

Type Information
see Conferva fibrillosa Dillwyn 1809;

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 February 2020

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Nomenclatural note
Combination also introduced by J.Agardh (1842:138). - (20 February 2017) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 February 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 14 June 2025