Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth) Harvey 1849
Current name:
Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth) Harvey
Northern California - 08 March 2011. Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org)
Publication Details
Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth) Harvey 1849: pl. CCXXXVIII [238]
Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1849). Phycologia britannica, or, a history of British sea-weeds: containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. pp. text with plates, pls CCXVII-CCLXX [217-270]. London: Reeve & Benham.
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Rhizoclonium is Rhizoclonium juergensii (Mertens) Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Conferva riparia Roth
Type Information
Type locality: "In Insula Norderney observavit amicus dilectiss. Mertens"; (Roth 1806: 216) Lectotype [designated by Womersley 1984: 170; Norderney, East Frisian Islands, Germany]: Mertens; BM; (Womersley 1984: 170) Notes: Womersley (1984: 170) notes that the holotype was destroyed.
Origin of Species Name
(Latin), growing on river banks, belonging to the shore (Dawes & Mathieson 2008)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 01 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 26 April 2024
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 April 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 October 2024