Desmarestia kurilensis Yamada 1935

Current name: Desmarestia kurilensis Yamada
Northern California - 08 March 2011. Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org)

Publication Details
Desmarestia kurilensis Yamada 1935: 14, pl. 4

Published in: Yamada, Y. (1935). Marine algae from Urup, the middle Kuriles, especially from the vicinity of Iema Bay. Scientific Papers of the Institute of Algological Research, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University 1: 1-26.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Desmarestia is Desmarestia aculeata (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Japan: Middle Kuriles: Urup I.: Iema Bay; (INA 1996)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 19 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 30 March 2022

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Distributional note
According to Gabrielson & Lindstrom (2018: 47) this species has not been confirmed outside its type locality on the Kurile Islands (Yang et al. 2014). - (23 February 2018) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 06 June 2025