Dictyota plectens (Allender & Kraft) Kraft 2009

Current name: Dictyota plectens (Allender & Kraft) Kraft
Dictyota plectans , Lord Howe Island, AustraliaMichael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)

Publication Details
Dictyota plectens (Allender & Kraft) Kraft 2009: 191, 334, fig. 60A-P; pl. 8E

Published in: Kraft, G.T. (2009). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 2. Brown algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-364, 107 figs. Erratum of fig. 73 from vol. 1. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study and CSIRO Publishing.

Publication date: late November 2009

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dictyota is Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.

Basionym
Dictyota bartayresii var. plectens Allender & Kraft

Type Information
Type locality: Boat Harbour, Lord Howe Island, Australia; (Kraft 2009: 334) Holotype: G.T. Kraft & R.W. Ricker; 8 December 1978; 3-6 m, on basalt and coral bommies; MELU; LHI-10369a (Kraft 2009: 334) Notes: Isotypes: MELU LHI-10369b, c,

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 07 April 2010 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 April 2013

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Taxonomic note
Kraft (2009: 195), while raising D. bartayresiana var. plectens to the status of species, notes that De Clerck (pers. comm.) has foreshadowed that additional molecular work (unpubl.) indicating an even closer and possibly conspecific relationship between D. ciliolata and D. plectens may result in their merger. See fig. 4 in De Clerck et al., 2006. "Future research, using less conservative markers. could yet indicate that both Dictyota menstrualis and D. plectens are ...distinct lineages warranting species status but if that should prove the case, it is likely that D. ciliolata proper will have to be subdivided into a large number of other cryptic and pseudocryptic species." (Tronholm et al. 2013: 180). - (05 April 2013) - G.M. Guiry

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 April 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 09 June 2025