Laurencia paniculata (C.Agardh) J.Agardh, nom. illeg.
Publication details
Laurencia paniculata (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1852: 755, nom. illeg.
Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1852). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 3, fasc. 1. pp. 701-786. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Laurencia is Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Palisada thuyoides (Kützing) Cassano, Sentíes, Gil-Rodríguez & M.T.Fujii
Basionym
Chondria obtusa var. paniculata C.Agardh
Type information
Type locality: Adriatic Sea (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 511). Lectotype: LD, Herb. Agardh 36711 (Womersley 2003: 485). Notes: Type from Trieste, Adriatic Sea (Womersley, 2003: 485). Boisset et al. (2000: 392) note that the specimen on the right (Agardh's Herbarium no. 36711)was designated as lectotype by Yamada (1931: 193) and not the left specimen, as erroneously indicated on the label in LD.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), paniculate.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
Nomenclatural notes
For a discussion of the nomenclatural problems involving this combination, see note in Furnari et al. (1999: 44).
Taxonomic notes
South & Skelton (2003: 739) cite this species as a synonym of Laurencia glandulifera (Kützing) Kützing 1849; see Furnari et al. (2016), who refute this.
General environment
This is a marine species.
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Source of current name
Cassano, V., Díaz-Larrea, J., Sentíes, A., Oliveira, M.C., Gil-Rodríguez, M.C. & Fujii, M.T. (2009). Evidence for the conspecificity of Palisada papillosa with P. perforata (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean on the basis of morphological and molecular analyses. Phycologia 48(2): 86-100, 30 figs, 2 tables.
Key references
Furnari, G., Cormaci, M. & Serio, D. (2001). The Laurencia complex (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae) in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview. Cryptogamie, Algologie 22(4): 331-373.
Furnari, G., Cormaci, M., Serio, D. & Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. (2016). Is the transfer of Chondria glandulifera (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) to the genus Chondrophycus (as Chondrophycus glandulifer) taxonomically correct? . Notulae Algarum 7: 1-8, 6 figs.
McDermid, K.J. (1988). Laurencia from the Hawaiian Islands: key, annotated list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 231-247. California Sea Grant College Program.
Millar, A.J.K. & Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. (2005). Marine benthic macroalgae collected by Vieillard from New Caledonia and described as new species by Kützing. Phycologia 44: 536-549.
Zhang J.F. & Xia, B.M. (1988). Laurencia from China: key list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 249-252. California Sea Grant College Program.
Zinova, A.D. (1967). Opredelitel zelenikh, burikh i krasnich odoroslei juzhnikh morei SSSR [Guide to the green, brown and red algae of the southern seas of USSR]. pp. 1-398. Moscow, Leningrad: Academia Nauk. [in Russian]
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