Ceramium sertularioides Grateloup 1806
Current name:
Polysiphonia sertularioides (Grateloup) J.Agardh
Augier Bay, Malta; on rock in splash zone - 17 March 2005. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Ceramium sertularioides Grateloup 1806: [1], fig. IV
Published in: Grateloup, J.P.A.S. (1806). Descriptiones aliquorum Ceramiorum novorum, cum iconum explicationibus Observations sur la constitution de l'été de 1806, et sur les maladies qui se sont présentées, pendant ce trimestre, à l'Hôtel-Dieu St-Eloi de Montpellier ; précédées de quelques considérations générales sur l'influence de l'air et des saisons sur l'économie des êtres vivans. Par J. P. A. S. Grateloup,... Pour obtenir le grade de docteur en médecine. pp. Appendix, with one unnumbered page and one unnumbered plate. Montpellier.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ceramium is Ceramium virgatum Roth.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Polysiphonia sertularioides (Grateloup) J.Agardh.
Source of Synonymy
Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. (2017). The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1-20, 77 figs.
Type Information
Type locality: Cette (Sète, Hérault), France; (Womersley 1979: 478) Notes: This type locality was first recorded by Womersley (1979: 478). Type from Cette, Golfe du Lion, France; but later Womersley says location unknown (Womersley, 2003: 186).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 17 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 10 October 2018
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 October 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2025
