Gloeothece membranacea (Rabenhorst) Bornet 1892
Current name:
Gloeothece membranacea (Rabenhorst) Bornet
In tufa deposits, Crockateemore, Co. Antrim. Collected by Melinda Lyons. - 16 July 2013. C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com)
Publication Details
Gloeothece membranacea (Rabenhorst) Bornet 1892: 175
Published in: Bornet, E. (1892). Les algues de P.-K.-A. Schousboe. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg 28: 165-376, pls I-III.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gloeothece is Gloeothece linearis Nägeli.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Aphanocapsa membranacea Rabenhorst
Type Information
Type locality: prope Menton Galliae australis ( leg. Böttcher, 1863); (Rabenhorst 1865: 49) Neotype: originally isolated by M.M. Allen from a freshwater locality in California; CBFS; A-105-1 (dried herbarium material of SAG 26.84) (Mares & al. 2019: 599)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), membranous (Stearn 1973).
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 03 July 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.
Last updated: 02 September 2019
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 September 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024