Mastocarpus polycarpus Kützing 1849

Gigartina polycarpa (Kützing) Setchell & N.L.Gardner

Current name: Gigartina polycarpa (Kützing) Setchell & N.L.Gardner
Cape of Good Hope, Cape Peninsula, South Africa - 18 November 2009. M.D. Guiry

Publication Details
Mastocarpus polycarpus Kützing 1849: 733

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 23-24 July 1849

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Mastocarpus is Mastocarpus mammillosus (Goodenough & Woodward) Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gigartina polycarpa (Kützing) Setchell & N.L.Gardner.

Type Information
Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; (Silva & al. 1996: 292)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 25 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 23 September 2004

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 September 2004. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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