Enteromorpha pilifera Kützing
Publication details
Enteromorpha pilifera Kützing 1856: 11, pl. 30: fig. III
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1856). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. VI pp. i-iv, 1-35, 100 pls. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers (in commission bei W. Köhne).
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Enteromorpha is Enteromorpha intestinalis (Linnaeus) Nees.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Ulva pilifera (Kützing) Škaloud & Leliaert
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), bearing hairs (Stearn 1973).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine/freshwater species.
Type information
Type locality: Tennstedt, Thüringen, Germany (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 733).
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Source of current name
Škaloud, P., Rindi, F., Boedeker, C. & Leliaert, F. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Freshwater flora of central Europe. Bd 13. Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae (Krienitz, L. ed.). pp. [i]-vii, [1]-288, 182 figs. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.
Key references
John, D.M. (2002). Order Cladophorales (=Siphonocladales). In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 468-470. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vinogradova, K.L. (1974). Ulvovye vodorosli (Chlorophyta) morei SSSR [Ulvaceous algae (Chlorophyta) of the seas of the USSR]. pp. 1-165. Leningrad [St Petersburg]: Nauka. [in Russian]
Created: 25 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 14 March 2018 by M.D. Guiry
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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Leonardi, P.I. & Cáceres, E.J. (1990). Absolute configuration of the flagellar apparatus of biflagellate zoospores of Enteromorpha flexuosa spp. pilifera (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 26: 149-156, 41 figs.
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