Flagellaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Stackhouse 1809
Current name:
Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, L.M.Irvine & Farnham
Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; collecting plantsRobert Anderson (Robert.Anderson@uct.ac.za)
Publication Details
Flagellaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Stackhouse 1809: 93
Published in: Stackhouse, J. (1809). Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
Type Species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, L.M.Irvine & Farnham.
Basionym
Fucus gracilis Stackhouse
Type Information
Type locality: "Padstow, Cornwall, and elsewhere", England; (Athanasiadis 1996: 63) Type: Stackhouse; BM; Notes: This type locality was first recorded as a lectotype without provenance by Steentoft, L.Irvine & Farnham (1995: 115, fig. 1) (Silva et al., 1996)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), thin, slender (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 22 December 2018 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.
Last updated: 22 December 2018
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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 22 December 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 11 December 2024