Hapalidium Kützing, 1843

Holotype species: Hapalidium roseolum Kützing

Currently accepted name for the type species: Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux

Original publication and holotype designation: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Precise date of publication: : 14-16 September 1843 (see Stafleu & Cowan 1979: 686 for details). The requirements for valid publication are specified in the ICBN (International Code of Botanical Nomenclature).

Description: No genus description is provided currently as this names is treated as a synonym.

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 J. Woelkerling but may now be outdated.

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

Comments: Chamberlain (1983: 300) concluded from an examination of the type specimen (L 941.241-152) that Hapalidium roseolum, the type species of Hapalidium, is a heterotypic synonym of Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V. Lamouroux, the type species of Melobesia (Family Hapalidiaceae). Consequently, Hapalidium Kützing (1843) is treated as a heterotypic synonym of Melobesia J.V. Lamouroux (1812).

Even though Hapalidium is a heterotypic synonym of Melobesia, the family name Hapalidiaceae, which is derived from the generic name Hapalidium, is legitimate and therefore nomenclaturally correct, as explained by Woelkerling (1988: 86) and Harvey et. al. (2003: 995).

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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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