Verrucaria rubra Sommerfelt 1826
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Fungi
Phylum Fungi Phylum
Class Fungi Class
Order Fungi Order
Family Fungi Family
Genus Verrucaria
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Claddagh, Galway, Ireland; with Elminius modestus, a barnacle. 27 Jan 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Claddagh, Galway, Ireland; thin plants in the high shore with barnacles. 27 Jan 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; pools at MHWN. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants on granite in upper-shore pools. 26 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants on granite in upper-shore pool. 26 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Doctor's Bay, Co. Down. J5962. 13th March 1976. Coll. O.Morton. Det. L.M.Irvine. Ulster Museum No. F1319; with Hildenbrandia crouaniorum (lighter patches). Bernard Picton. © Bernard Picton (Bernard.Picton@magni.org.uk).
Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Colin Bates (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca). © Coastal Imageworks (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca).
Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ártabra, 2005, intertidal; note colour dry (top) and wet (bottom). Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; in pool with periwinkles. 31 Aug 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
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Hildenbrandia rubra (Sommerfelt) Meneghini Cabrillo National Monument, California.
© National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior
Publication details
Verrucaria rubra Sommerfelt 1826: 140
Published in: Sommerfelt, C. (1826). Supplementum Florae lapponicae quam edidit Dr. Georgius Wahlenberg auctore. pp. [i*-iii*], [i]-xii, [1]-331, [332, err.], 3 pls. Christianiae [Oslo]: typis Borgianis et Gröndahlianis.
Publication date: March 1826
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Verrucaria is .
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Hildenbrandia rubra (Sommerfelt) Meneghini
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), red (Stearn 1973).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: Hab. in lapidibus a fluxu maris inundatis ad litora Nordlandiae frequenter [Nordland, Norway] (Sommerfelt 1826: 140). Lectotype: O (Irvine & Pueschel 1994: 240). Notes: According to Irvine & Pueschel (1994: the lectotype: is from Norway (Saltdal). Sherwood & Sheath (2003: 411) give the following data: Holotype: Yaltdalen. Sommerfelt (vii. 1822); in O (no number given).
No distributions recorded
No distributional records for this taxon have been recorded by AlgaeBase to date. Generally, recent national lists or extensive regional or state lists have been employed to give a general indication of distribution.
Source of current name
Meneghini, G. (1841). [Algologia Dalmatica]. In: Sezione di botanica, e fisiologia vegetabile. Adunanza del dì 16 Settembre 1841. In: Atti della Terza Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani, tenuta in Firenze nel Settembre del 1841. (Savi, P. Eds), pp. 417-436. Firenze: Galileiana.
Created: 04 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 31 July 2017 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 January 2021.