Melanothamnus blandii (Harvey) Diaz-Tapia & Maggs 2017

Current name: Melanothamnus blandii (Harvey) Diaz-Tapia & Maggs
Eglinton Rocks, Western AustraliaJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Melanothamnus blandii (Harvey) Diaz-Tapia & Maggs 2017: 6

Published in: Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. (2017). The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1-20, 77 figs.

Publication date: February 2017

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Melanothamnus is Melanothamnus somalensis Bornet & Falkenberg.

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

Basionym
Polysiphonia blandii Harvey

Type Information
Type locality: New Brighton, Port Phillip [Brighton, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia]; (Harvey 1862: pl. 184) Lectotype: WHH [W.H. Harvey]; TCD; Harvey Travelling Set (Millar 1990: 442) Notes: Womersley (2003: 193) gives the following data: Type... (Harvey, Alg. Aust. Exsicc. 170F); ... isolectotype in BM.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 22 March 2017 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

Last updated: 17 January 2020

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 January 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 May 2025