Fucus verticillatus Lightfoot 1777

Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding

Current name: Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland. - 22 April 2012. M.D. Guiry (michael.guiry@algaebase.org)

Publication Details
Fucus verticillatus Lightfoot 1777: 692, pl. 31

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.

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Publication date: October 1777

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding.

Type Information
Type locality: Jura, Argyll, Scotland; (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 81) Lectotype: BM-K; (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 81)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), verticillate, whorled (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 25 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 November 2022

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 November 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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