Acanthoceras shuttleworthianum Kützing 1842
Current name:
Ceramium shuttleworthianum (Kützing) Rabenhorst
Spain, Galicia, Ría de A Coruña, 2009Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)
Publication Details
Acanthoceras shuttleworthianum Kützing 1842: 739
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1842 '1841'). Ueber Ceramium Ag.. Linnaea 15(6): 727-746.
Request PDFPublication date: February-March 1842
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Acanthoceras.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Ceramium shuttleworthianum (Kützing) Rabenhorst.
Source of Synonymy
Rabenhorst, G.L. (1846 '1847'). Deutschlands Kryptogamen-Flora oder Handbuch zur Bestimmung der kryptogamischen Gewächse Deutschlands, der Schweiz, des Lombardisch-Venetianischen Königreichs und Istriens. Zweiter Band. Zweite Abteilung: Algen. pp. [ii]-xix, [xx, err.], [1]-200, [201]-216, index. Leipzig: Verlag von Eduard Kummer.
Type Information
Type locality: "an den irischen Küsten: Shuttleworth!" [probably Co. Galway, Ireland]; (Kützing 1842: 739) Lectotype: Shuttleworth; L; 940.265.127 (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 72) Notes: No more precise locality is known in Ireland, although Shuttleworth is known to have been in Renvyl, Co. Galway in July, 1832 (M.E. Mitchell, pers. comm., Nov. 2001). He appears to have sent several Irish specimens to Kützing.
Eponomy
Robert James Shuttleworth (1810-1874) was in the Renvyl area in Connemara in 1830 and 1831 helping his stepbrother Blake on his estate. During this time he collected several algae, flowering plants (Webb & Scannell 1983: 16), and molluscs.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 25 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 05 October 2024
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 October 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2025
