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Cladophoropsis magna Womersley 1955

Publication Details
Cladophoropsis magna Womersley 1955: 390, fig. 7 (as 'magnus')

Published in: Womersley, H.B.S. (1955). New marine Chlorophyta from southern Australia. Pacific Science 9: 387-395, 11 figs.

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cladophoropsis is Cladophoropsis membranacea (Bang ex C.Agardh) Børgesen.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Smoky Bay, Eyre Peninsula., South Australia; (Womersley 1984: 185) Holotype: ADU; A13651 (Womersley 1984: 185) Notes: Collector: Womersley; Isotype: MEL 666096 (Leliaert & Coppejans, 2004: 202). Isotypes distributed under numbers A13615 and A13616 in MEL and NY (Leliaert & Coppejans, 2006: 663).

Created: 09 June 2003 by G.M. Guiry.

Last updated: 27 September 2015

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Nomenclatural note
Leliaert & Coppejans (2004) cite this as Cladophoropsis magnus. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Womersley (1984: 185) notes that type was a large mass in drift and probably came from the sublittoral zone. - (18 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 September 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 17 June 2025