Kappaphycus striatus (F.Schmitz) L.M.Liao 1996

Publication Details
Kappaphycus striatus (F.Schmitz) L.M.Liao 1996: 158 (as 'striatum')

Published in: Liao, L.M. (1996). Validation of names transferred to Kappaphycus Doty from Eucheuma J. Agardh (Rhodophyta: Solieriaceae). The Philippine Journal of Science 125(2): 158-160, no figs.

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Publication date: "April-June 1996"

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Kappaphycus is Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) L.M.Liao.

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

Basionym
Eucheuma striatum F.Schmitz

Type Information
Type locality: Zanzibar, Tanzania; (Silva & al. 1996: 334) Holotype: Dr. Stuhlmann; Hamburg; (Doty 1988: 173, 177) Notes: Doty (1988: 173, 177) notes that at Leiden there is an isotype received (Weber-van Bosse 1926) from H. Winkler of the Hamburg Herbarium and that there is a tiny isotype, an exsicattum, in the British Museum.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), striped or fluted.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

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

Last updated: 01 July 2022

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Nomenclatural note
The ending is treated as masculine in accordance with the provision in the Vienna Code (Art. 62C): (c) Compounds ending in -ceras, -dendron, -nema, -stigma, -stoma, and other neuter words, are neuter. An exception is made for names ending in -anthos (or -anthus), -chilos (-chilus or -cheilos), and -phykos (-phycos or -phycus), which ought to be neuter, since that is the gender of the Greek words anthos, cheilos, and phykos, but are treated as masculine in accordance with botanical tradition. - (08 December 2009) - M.D. Guiry

Distributional note
Introduced in Fiji (N'Yeurt et al., 1996) and Hawaiian Islands (Abbott, 1999). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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