Polyporolithon L.R. Mason, 1953

Holotype species: Polyporolithon conchatum (Setchell & Foslie) L.R.Mason

Currently accepted name for the type species: Mesophyllum conchatum (Setchell & Foslie) W.H.Adey

Original publication and holotype designation: Mason, L.R. (1953). The crustaceous coralline algae of the Pacific coast of the United States, Canada and Alaska. University of California Publications in Botany 26(4): 313-389, Plates 27-46. [in English]

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Precise date of publication: 14 January 1953 (stated on obverse of inside cover page of paper). The requirements for valid publication are specified in the ICBN (International Code of Botanical Nomenclature).

Description: No description is provided as Polyporplithon is currently included in synonymy.

Information kindly contributed by Wm. J. Woelkerling but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Mesophyllum.

Comments: Mason (1953) explicitly designated P. conchatum as type species of Polyporolithon. Adey (1970: 23, 27) concluded from an examination of the lectotype specimen (TRH B17-2541; see Woelkerling et al. 2005: 340) of P. conchatum that it belonged to the genus Mesophyllum. This was subsequently confirmed by Athanasiadis et. al. (2004: 140-146, figs 54-91), who provided a detailed accounts of the lectotype and the species as a whole. Consequently, Polyporolithon Mason (1953) is treated as a heterotypic synonym of Mesophyllum Lemoine (1928).

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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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