Boreolithothamnion corallioides (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) V.Peña & P.W.Gabrielson 2025
Current name:
Boreolithothamnion corallioides (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) V.Peña & P.W.Gabrielson
Trá an Dóilín, an Cheathrú Rua, Connemara; live plants at low water - 05 May 2008. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Boreolithothamnion corallioides (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) V.Peña & P.W.Gabrielson 2025: 1
Published in: Peña, V., Gabrielson, P.W. & Guiry, M.D. (2025). Epitypification of Spongites corallioides P.Crouan & H.Crouan and transfer to Boreolithothamnion corallioides (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) V.Peña & P.W.Gabrielson, comb. nov. (Hapalidiales, Florideophyceae). Notulae Algarum 375: 1–2.
Request PDFPublication date: "9 June 2025"
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Boreolithothamnion is Boreolithothamnion glaciale (Kjellman) P.W.Gabrielson, Maneveldt, Hughey & V.Peña.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Spongites corallioides P.Crouan & H.Crouan
Type Information
Type locality: Rade de Brest, Finistère, Bretagne, France; (Chamberlain & Irvine 1994: 180) Neotype (designated by Chamberlain & Irvine 1994: 177). : BM; 000530511 (No. 242 in the exsiccata Algues marines du Finistère (Crouan & Crouan 1852) (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994: 180) Notes: Isoneotypes: PC, Algues marines du Finistere no. 242, Thuret-Bornet Herbarium (algal fascicle 131, filed under Lithothamnion), includes printed label; PC, Algues marines du Finistere no. 242, Cryptogamic Library in the separately preserved exsiccata, includes printed label; PC, no. 242, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym) (Woelkerling, 1993: 390). Epitype (designated by Gabrielson & al. (2025: 1) for the neotype BM 000530511): DBN (GALW 15750, Rade de Brest, Finistère, France; leg. Jacque Grall & Jazmin Hernández-Kantún, n.d.).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Phycobank Registration
https://www.phycobank.org/105559
Created: 09 June 2025 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 09 June 2025
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 09 June 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 June 2025
