Conferva pellucida Hudson 1762
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Eukaryota unassigned
Phylum Eukaryota unassigned phylum
Class Eukaryota unassigned class
Order Eukaryota unassigned order
Family Eukaryota unassigned family
Genus Conferva
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habit, Ría of Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, 2014. Ignacio Barbara. © Ignacio Barbara.
Collected near Île de Baz (F), December 1984. 29 Dec 2011. Elmar Wosnitza. © Christine Wosnitza.
North of Spain, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).
Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San ciprián, 2004, lower intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Cladophora pellucida (Hudson) Kützing Collected near Île de Baz (F), December 1984
© Christine Wosnitza
Publication details
Conferva pellucida Hudson 1762: 483
Published in: Hudson, [W.] (1762). Flora anglica; exhibens plantas per regnum angliae sponte crescentes, distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, tempore florendi, ofììcinalibus pharmacopoeorum. pp. [i]-viii, [1- 8], 1-506, [1-22, ind.]. Londini [London]: Impensis auctoris: Prostant venales apud J. Nourse in the Strand, et C. Moran in Covent-Garden. Download PDF
Publication date: Jan-Jun 1762
Type species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Lychaete pellucida (Hudson) M.J.Wynne
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), pellucid, translucent but not hyaline (Stearn 1973).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: Walney Island, Lancashire, England (Silva & al. 1996: 778). Neotype: BM Designated by van den Hoek (1963) as one of three specimens ‘preserved under the name Conferva pellucida in Forster’s herbarium labelled “Hudson’s sale”’ (Archer 1963
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Source of current name
Wynne, M.J. (2017). The reinstatement of Lychaete J.Agardh (Ulvophyceae, Cladophoraceae). Notulae Algarum 31: 1-4, 1 fig.
Key references
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: [i]-xiv, 1-1259.
Created: 27 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 12 August 2017 by M.D. Guiry
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