Polyides C.Agardh, 1822

Holotype species: Polyides lumbricalis C.Agardh

Currently accepted name for the type species: Polyides rotunda (Hudson) Gaillon

Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, C.A. (1822). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum pars posterior. pp. [v-vi], 169-398. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.

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Precise date of publication: ? Nov. 1822

Description: Plants reach 20 cm in length, are erect, terete, repeatedly dichotomous, and anchored by a crustose holdfast. Spermatangia are superficial on upper axes. Carposporophytes are composed of sterile, small-celled inner tissue and surface carposporangia. Tetrasporangia form in slightly swollen sori in younger axes (Dixon and Irvine 1977).

Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-05 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.

Comments: Distribution: From intertidal to 12 m depths from Arctic Europe to northern Spain and the Baltic Sea in Europe and Arctic Canada to New York in the western Atlantic.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024