Fucus polyschides Lightfoot 1777
Current name:
Saccorhiza polyschides (Lightfoot) Batters
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; flattened stipes with colonies of the blue-rayed limpet Ansates pellucida
(Helcion pellucidum, Patina pellucida) - 29 September 2007. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Fucus polyschides Lightfoot 1777: 936-938
Published in: Lightfoot, J. (1777). Flora scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides. Vol. II. pp. 545-1151 [1-24], pls 1-35. London: printed for B. White at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street.
Request PDFPublication date: October 1777
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Saccorhiza polyschides (Lightfoot) Batters.
Type Information
Syntype localities: Scotland; Cornwall, England; (Silva & al. 1996: 907) Type: BM;
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 18 February 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 31 July 2006
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 31 July 2006. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 31 May 2023
