Ceramium gracillimum Griffiths & Harvey ex Harvey 1848

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Ceramiaceae
Subfamily Ceramioideae
Tribe Ceramieae
Genus Ceramium

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Publication details
Ceramium gracillimum Griffiths & Harvey ex Harvey 1848: pl. 206

Type 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 Ceramium flaccidum (Harvey ex Kützing) Ardissone

Basionym

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very slender (Neal 1993).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Nomenclatural notes
Nakamura (1965: 136) cites Ceramium gracillimum (Kützing) Griffiths & Harvey. - (11 Aug 2009) - Wendy Guiry

General environment
No habitat entry has yet been made for this entity.

Habitat
Grows on rocks or Ulva. Gelidium, Corallina, Laurencia, Phyllospadix and Zostera, etc. (Nakamura 1965).

Detailed distribution with sources (Click to Load)

Source of current name
Womersley, H.B.S. (1998). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. pp. [1]-535, 235 figs, 4 col. figs in 2 pls. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

Key references
Nakamura, Y. (1965). Species of the genera Ceramium and Campylaephora, especially those of northern Japan. Scientific Papers of the Institute of Algological Research, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University 5(2): 119-180.

Created: 14 January 2009 by G.M. Guiry

Verified by: 04 June 2010 by G.M. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2021.