Herbacea ligulata Stackhouse 1809
Current name:
Desmarestia ligulata (Stackhouse) J.V.Lamouroux
Seal Rock, Oregon, USA; lower intertidal - 14 June 2003. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Herbacea ligulata Stackhouse 1809: 89
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
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Herbacea.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Desmarestia ligulata (Stackhouse) J.V.Lamouroux.
Source of Synonymy
Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.
Type Information
see Fucus ligulatus Lightfoot;
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), ligulate (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 06 August 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 03 October 2024
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 03 October 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 13 December 2024