Ulva crispa Lightfoot 1777
Current name:
Prasiola crispa (Lightfoot) Kützing
Alleyway, Galway City, Ireland - 13 February 2011. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Ulva crispa Lightfoot 1777: 972
Published in: Lightfoot, J. (1777). Flora scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides. Vol. II. pp. 545-1151 [1-24], pls 1-35. London: printed for B. White at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street.
Publication date: October 1777
Original description: 
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Prasiola crispa (Lightfoot) Kützing.
Type Information
Type locality: Isle of Skye, Argyll, Scotland; (Bryant, Irvine & Ruffle 2012: 32) Lectotype: BM; 000005094 (Bryant, Irvine & Ruffle 2012: 32) Notes: Bryant, Irvine & Ruffle (2012: 32) report the annotation on the lectotype: "No. 22. In moist shady places on the North side of Walls where no Grass grows, generally. This is a thin membranaceous substance, & I think it mostly is where people Pisses ag[ain]st Walls."
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), crisped, irregularly waved and twisted (Stearn 1973).
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 04 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 01 October 2016
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 October 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024
