Polysiphonia australiensis Womersley 1979
Publication Details
Polysiphonia australiensis Womersley 1979: 491, figs 9A-D
Published in: Womersley, H.B.S. (1979). Southern Australian species of Polysiphonia Greville (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 27: 459-528, 14 figs.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia; (Silva & al. 1996: 537) Holotype: Womersley; 22 November 1968; mid eulittoral, south side Ellen Point; AD; A32913-”Marine Algae of southern Australia” No. 210 (Womersley 2003: 199)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Habitat
This is largely confined to the lower and mid eulittoral zones on sloping rock on rough-water coasts; occasionally it is epiphytic in the same habitats (Womersley 2003: 199).
Created: 11 March 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 02 October 2010
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
