Gelidium melanoideum Schousboe ex Bornet 1892

Pterocladiella melanoidea (Schousboe ex Bornet) Santelices & Hommersand

Current name: Pterocladiella melanoidea (Schousboe ex Bornet) Santelices & Hommersand
North of Portugal, 2007 - 09 December 2011. Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Gelidium melanoideum Schousboe ex Bornet 1892: 269

Published in: Bornet, E. (1892). Les algues de P.-K.-A. Schousboe. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg 28: 165-376, pls I-III.

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

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Pterocladiella melanoidea (Schousboe ex Bornet) Santelices & Hommersand.

Source of Synonymy
Santelices, B. & Hommersand, M. (1997). Pterocladiella, a new genus in the Gelidiaceae (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 36: 114-119.

Type Information
Type locality: Tangier, Morocco; (Bornet 1892: 269) Notes: Alg. Schousb. nos 376, 377

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 14 December 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 November 2015

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 November 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 July 2025

 
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