Nitophyllum nitidum J.J.Rodríguez y Femenías ex J.Agardh 1898
Publication Details
Nitophyllum nitidum J.J.Rodríguez y Femenías ex J.Agardh 1898: 36
Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1898). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Voluminis Tertii, Pars Tertia. De dispositione Delesseriearum curae posteriores. pp. i-vii, 1-239. Lundae [Lund]: apud C.W.K. Gleerup.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Nitophyllum is Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackhouse) Greville.
Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.
Basionym
Epilithon nitidum (Johnson) J.P.Beckmann & R.Beckmann
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), shining.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 06 December 2023
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Taxonomic note
"This species was briefly described by J. Agardh (1898: 36) on a specimen collected at Menorca (the Balearic Islands, Spain) held in Rodríguez y Femenías Herbarium. It was quoted by De Toni [1900: 624, with the indication "(nomen)"] and by Preda (1908: 281) with reference to the only record by Agardh (op. cit.). Afterwards, it was no more reported. Kylin (1924: 96), listed it among species inquirendae, because he couldn't well study the two specimens held in Agardh's Herbarium. Athanasiadis (2016: 1149) listed it among incertae sedis of Delesseriaceae. It's noteworthy that both Wynne (2013: 138) and M.D. Guiry in Guiry & Guiry (2023) consider it as a taxonomically accepted species." (Cormaci & al. 2023: 483). - (06 December 2023) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 13 June 2025
