Fucus bracteatus S.G.Gmelin 1768

Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner

Current name: Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner
Olifantsbos, Cape Peninsula, South AfricaM.D. Guiry

Publication Details
Fucus bracteatus S.G.Gmelin 1768: 212-213

Published in: Gmelin, S.G. (1768). Historia fucorum. pp. [i-xii], [i]-239, [i]-6 expl. tab., 35 pls [1A, IB, IIA, IIB, III-XXXIII]. Petropoli [St. Petersburg]: Ex typographia Academiae scientiarum.

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Publication date: p. xii: i Mai 1768

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner.

Type Information
Type locality: "Mare indicum"*; (Silva & al. 1996: 903) Notes: *Silva et al. (1996: 903) note: Seba's (1758) illustrations, included in the protologue of Fucus bracteatus, were considered to constitute the type of F. bracteatus by Setchell & Gardner. Seba's material probably came from the Cape of Good Hope on the Atlantic Ocean. Gigartina bracteata is restricted to the cold waters of western Cape Province, South Africa. Rumphius (1750: 186) is also cited in the protologue. His alga (from Amboina on the Banda Sea, an outlier of the Pacific Ocean) was referred by G. Mertens (1863: 43) to Mastocarpus klenzeanus Kützing, a taxonomic synonym of Sarcodia montagneana (J. Hooker & Harvey J. Agardh. There is no indication that Gmelin had original collections at hand, so that the provenance "Mare indicum" shoud be considered erroneous. According to Parkinson (1981: 19), Gmelin's species is based primarily on the Rumphius plant and not on those of Seba (1750).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), bearing bracts.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 05 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 13 July 2009

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 July 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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