Dasyella gracilis Falkenberg 1901
Publication Details
Dasyella gracilis Falkenberg 1901: 656, pl. 16: figs 12-19
Published in: Falkenberg, P. (1901). Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte Heraus gegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, Monographie 26. pp. i-xvi, 1-754, 10 figs, 24 pls. Berlin: Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohns.
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This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Dasyella.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "Diese neue Gattung ist auf eine winzige Dasyeen-Species begründet, welche Berthold 1881 in einem einzigen Exemplar von ein Centimeter Länge bei Neapel auf der Rhede von Sa. Lucia mittelst des Taucherapparates zu Tage gefördert und mir überlassen hat" [This new genus is based on a tiny Dasyeen species, which Berthold unearthed in 1881 in a single specimen one centimeter long near Naples on the road of Sa. Lucia using a diving apparatus and left to me; Gulf of Naples, Italy]; (Falkenberg 1901: 656)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), thin, slender (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 18 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 07 December 2023
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Taxonomic note
This species, endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, after its description (Falkenberg, 1901: 656) based on a single sterile specimen collected by Berthold in 1881 in the Gulf of Naples (Italy) between 10 and 20 m depth, was reported only 3 times
1) by Coppejans & Boudouresque (1984) who described and illustrated the fertile specimens (tetrasporophytes and female gametophytes) collected at a depth of 35 m in the Roches Torreilles bank, off the coast of the Eastern Pyrenees (France);
2) by Ballesteros (1984: 62) who described the tettrasporiferous specimens collected at Tossa de Mar (Catalan coast, Spain) at a depth of 18 m in a community with Ericaria zosteroides (C. Agardh) Molinari et Guiry (as Cystoseira zosteroides C. Agardh);
3) by Klein & Verlaque (2011: 119, figs 18-19) who described and illustrated the sterile thalli collected in Marseille (France) at a depth of 17 m on dead Posidonia oceanica rhizomes and at 29 m depth on a detrital bottom.
4) by Rindi et al. (2002: 225) from the island of Elba (Tuscany, Italy) and by Piazzi et al. (2010: 8) from Argentario (Tuscany, Italy). - (07 December 2023) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 May 2025
