Amphiroa vanbosseae Me.Lemoine 1929

Current name: Amphiroa vanbosseae Me.Lemoine
intertidal over Lithophyllum incrustans, Costa da Morte, Galicia, Spain, 2010Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Amphiroa vanbosseae Me.Lemoine 1929: 72, pl. 3: fig. 7 (as 'Van Bossea')

Published in: Lemoine, Mme P. [M.] (1929). Les Corallinacées de l'Archipel des Galapagos et du Golfe de Panama. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle [Paris], Sixième Série 4: 37-88, 35 figs, IV pls.

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Publication date: "Ce volume a été publié en Décembre 1929"

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Amphiroa is Amphiroa tribulus (J.Ellis & Solander) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: Post office Bay, I. Charles, Galápagos, Ecuador; (Lemoine 1929: 73) Type: PC;

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 09 November 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 01 July 2024

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Nomenclatural note
Taylor (1945) cites this as Amphiroa van Bosseae Lemoine. John et al. (2004) cite this species as Amphiroa vanbosseae. Athanasiadis (2017: 299) employs "van-bosseae". The original was "Van Bossea" and INA employs "vanbosseae". - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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Francisco F. Pedroche in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 July 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 June 2025