Ceramium nitens (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1851

Ceramium nitens (C.Agardh) J.Agardh

Current name: Ceramium nitens (C.Agardh) J.Agardh
en su hábitat natural, en la zona Habana-Matanzas, sobre una gorgonia. Foto: Ángel Fernández.

Publication Details
Ceramium nitens (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1851: 130

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 1. pp. [i]-xii, [1]-336 + 337-351 [Addenda and Indices]. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ceramium is Ceramium virgatum Roth.

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

Basionym
Ceramium rubrum var. nitens C.Agardh

Origin of Species Name
Participle (Latin), shining, gleaming (Dawes & Mathieson 2008).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Mid-intertidal to shallow subtidal up to 15 m depth; growing on rocks or coral fragments, and epiphytic on, or sometimes entangled with, other green or red macroalgae, or seagrass blades of Thalassia testudinum Banks ex Konig or Syringodium filiforme Kützing.

Created: 23 June 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 28 March 2017

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 March 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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