Gigartina marginifera J.Agardh
Publication details
Gigartina marginifera J.Agardh 1876: 196
Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: de Florideis curae posteriores. Part 1. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
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Publication date: Apr-Aug 1876
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gigartina is Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Sarcothalia marginifera (J.Agardh) Hommersand
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: N. New zealand (Hommersand, Guiry, Fredericq & Leister 1993: 113). Type: LD (Hommersand, Guiry, Fredericq & Leister 1993: 113).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gigartina marginifera J.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chapman 1979, Adams 1994, Nelson & Phillips 1996), Stewart Island/Rakiura (Chapman 1979).
Source of current name
Hommersand, M.H., Guiry, M.D., Fredericq, S. & Leister, G.L. (1993). New perspectives in the taxonomy of the Gigartinaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 14: 105-120, 41 figs.
Created: 05 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 09 July 2009 by Wendy Guiry
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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019.
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