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Sargassum steinitzii Lipkin & P.C.Silva

Publication details
Sargassum steinitzii Lipkin & P.C.Silva 2002: 50-51

Original publication: Lipkin, Y. & Silva, P.C. (2002). Marine algae and seagrasses of the Dahlak Archipelago, southern Red Sea. Nova Hedwigia 75: 1-90, 7 figs.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sargassum tenue J.Agardh 1848

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: India (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 50). Type: LD (presumably) Wight 239 (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 50).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum tenue J.Agardh)
South-west Asia: India (Tseng & Lu 1988), Red Sea (Papenfuss 1968 ).

Asia: China (Phillips 1995), Hong Kong (Tseng & Lu 1988).

Australia and New Zealand: New Guinea (Phillips 1995).

(as Sargassum steinitzii Lipkin & P.C.Silva)
Africa: Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002).

South-west Asia: India (Lipkin & Silva 2002).

Nomenclatural notes
Replaced name: Sargassum tenue J. Agardh 1848, non S. tenue (Kützing) Endlicher 1843. - (27 May 2010) - Wendy Guiry

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Sargassum&species=steinitzii

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Sargassum&Species=steinitzii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 27 May 2010 by Wendy Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:38912

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