Conferva cornea (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1847

Publication Details
Conferva cornea (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1847: 114

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Conferva is Conferva rupestris Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Acrocladus echinus (Biasoletto) Boedeker.

Basionym
Aegagropila cornea Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "Am Lido di Palestrina bei Venedig;! 16. Mai 1835." [Venice, Italy]; (Kützing 1843: 273) Type: L; 937/278/394 (Hoek 1963: 47)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), horny, hard and close-textured but not brittle (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 04 April 2003 by Elizabeth Moran.

Last updated: 20 January 2017

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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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