Amphithallia crassiuscula (Kützing) Athanasiadis 2019
Publication Details
Amphithallia crassiuscula (Kützing) Athanasiadis 2019: 14, figs 1-5
Published in: Athanasiadis, A. (2019). Amphithallia, a genus with four-celled carpogonial branches and connecting filaments in the Corallinales (Rhodophyta). Marine Biology Research 15(1): 13-25, 6 figs, 1 table.
Publication date: "Published online: 02 May 2019"
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Amphithallia.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Melobesia crassiuscula Kützing
Type Information
Type locality: "Cap. — An Gelidium cartilagineum." [Cape of Good Hope, South Africa]; (Kützing 1843: 386) Holotype: collector not indicated; date not indicated; L; 939.6-146 (Woelkerling 1998: 370) Notes: Athanasiadis (2019: [2]) attempted to designated a lectotype from "herbarium sheet L4081310 (barcode L0491448) placed in folder BE.1847238 (and also including three slides deposited here) [in L]. The lectotype is a gametophyte attached to G[elidium] capense (S. Gmelin) P.C. Silva, from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, no date, no collector (herb. Kützing)." However, in accordance with Art. 8.2, sheet L4081310 represents a single gathering and is automatically the holotype as indicated by Woelkerling (1998: 370). Holotype fragments: PC, unnumbered, Montagne Herbarium (in the bound volume Types d'Algues recues de Monsieur Kützing de Nordhausen en Juin 1846).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 08 May 2019 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 15 June 2019
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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 15 June 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024
