Mychodea marginifera (J.E.Areschoug) Kraft 1978

Current name: Mychodea marginifera (J.E.Areschoug) Kraft
Cape Peron, Western Australia; scale 3 mmJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Mychodea marginifera (J.E.Areschoug) Kraft 1978: 551, figs 16 A-G, 17 A-E, 38 A-E, 39 A-E

Published in: Kraft, G.T. (1978). Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). III. The Mychodeaceae and Mychodeophyllaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 26: 515-610, 46 figs.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Mychodea is Mychodea carnosa Hooker f. & Harvey.

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

Basionym
Euthora marginifera Areschoug

Type Information
Type locality: "Ad oram Novae Hollandiae meridionalem in sinu Port Phillip" [Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia]; (Areschoug 1854: 247) Lectotype: F. Mueller sine numero; S; A28591 (Kraft 1978: 55) Notes: Isolectotype: S-A28593

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Thalli grow directly on rock and jetty pilings, epiphytically on plants such as the brown alga Acrocarpia paniculata and the seagrass Amphibolis antarctica or epizoically on stalked tunicates; range from the low intertidal zones of some rough-water coasts to depths of 11 m in calmer localities (Kraft 1978: 551).

Created: 19 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 19 April 2023

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 19 April 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2025