Chauvinia coriifolia (Harvey) Harvey, nom. illeg. 1862

Publication Details
Chauvinia coriifolia (Harvey) Harvey, nom. illeg. 1862: expl. pl. CCXL [240] (as 'corifolia')

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1862). Phycologia australica: or, a history of Australian seaweeds; comprising coloured figures and descriptions of the more characteristic marine algae of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia, and a synopsis of all known Australian algae. Vol. 4. pp. viii, Plates CLXXXI-CCXL. London: Lovell Reeve & Co..

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Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Chauvinia.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Chauviniella coriifolia (Harvey) Papenfuss.

Source of Synonymy
Papenfuss, G.F. (1956). On the nomenclature of some Delesseriaceae. Taxon 5: 158-162.

Basionym
Delesseria coriifolia Harvey

Type Information
Syntype localities: Garden and Rottnest Islands, Western Australia; (Silva & al. 1996: 453) Lectotype: (Womersley 2003: 63) Notes: Womersley (2003: 63) gives the following data: Type from Garden and Rottnest Is, W. Australia (Harvey, Trav. Set 279); such specimens missing from Harvey's Trav. Set and in TCD; specimen from Fremantle selected as lectotype (1952).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 29 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 December 2017

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Nomenclatural note
Illegitimate: used as a combination in an illegitimate name. - (12 June 2007) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 December 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 March 2025

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