Fucus floresii Clemente Y Rubio

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Subclass Fucophycidae
Order Fucales
Family Fucaceae
Genus Fucus

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Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler and M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon: A Floristic Inventory and Field Guide. OffShore Graphics, Inc., Washington, DC, 298 pp. 584 distributed by Harbor B. Diane Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler and M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon: A Floristic Inventory and Field Guide. OffShore Graphics, Inc., Washington, DC, 298 pp. 584 distributed by Harbor B. Diane Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler and M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon: A Floristic Inventory and Field Guide. OffShore Graphics, Inc., Washington, DC, 298 pp. 584 distributed by Harbor B. Diane Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

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Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler and M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon: A Floristic Inventory and Field Guide. OffShore Graphics, Inc., Washington, DC, 298 pp. 584 distributed by Harbor B
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Publication details
Fucus floresii Clemente Y Rubio 1807: 312 (as 'floresius' )

Published in: Roxas Clemente y Rubio, S. de (1807). Ensayo sobre las variedades de la vid comun que vegetan en Andalucía, con un índice etimológico y tres listas de plantas en que se caracterizan varias especies nuevas, por Don Simon de Roxas Clemente y Rubio. pp. [i]-xviii + [1]-324, 1 pl. Madrid: En la imprenta de Villalpando.
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Publication date: After 1 March 1807

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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 Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh

Eponomy
Named for D. Francisco Flores, a Mexican landowner.

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Nomenclatural notes
The protologue includes "D. Francisco Flores hanc speciem dicare volui, fucorum Luciferifani indagatori diligentissimo acutissimoque." Thus the species is named to honour Dom Flores and the epithet should be 'floresii' not 'floresia' as commonly rendered in the literature.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Spain (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 198). Type: Rojas Clemente y Rubio; MA MA-Algae 1832 (Rodríguez-Prieto et al. 2018: 522). Notes: Collector: Don Francisco Flores (INA)

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus floresii Clemente Y Rubio)
Europe: Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).

Key references
Rodríguez-Prieto, C., De Clerck, O., Huisman, J.M. & Lin, S.-M. (2018). Systematics of the red algal genus Halymenia (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta): characterization of the generitype H. floresii and description of Neofolia rosea gen. et sp. nov. European Journal of Phycology 53(4): 520-536.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Womersley, H.B.S. & Lewis, J.A. (1994). Family Halymeniaceae Bory 1828: 158. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part IIIA. Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 167-218. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Created: 13 May 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 29 November 2018 by Wendy Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
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Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 December 2019.