Halymenia cliftonii Harvey, nom. illeg. 1859
Current name: Cryptonemia kallymenioides (Harvey) Kraft
Publication Details
Halymenia cliftonii Harvey, nom. illeg. 1859: pl. 103 (as 'Cliftoni')
Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1859). Phycologia australica: or, a history of Australian seaweeds; comprising coloured figures and descriptions of the more characteristic marine algae of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia, and a synopsis of all Known australian algae. Vol. 2. pp. [i]-viii, Plates LXI-CXX (with text). London: Lovell Reeve & Co..
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The type species (lectotype) of the genus Halymenia is Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Cryptonemia kallymenioides (Harvey) Kraft.
Type Information
Notes: Isotype in MEL, no. 502377 (Scott et al. 1982: 247).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 29 June 2000 by Fabio Rindi.
Last updated: 04 January 2011
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Nomenclatural note
Silva et al. (1996: 191) note that this is a superfluous substitute name for H. kallymenioides, but Harvey's circumscription of this species included material of a second species (Leptosomia cliftonii (J. Agardh) J. Agardh [= L. rosea(Harvey) Womersley]. - (19 March 2009) - G.M. Guiry
Taxonomic notes
Scott et al. (1982: 247) and Silva et al. (1996: 368) cite this as a synonym of Cryptonemia kallymenioides (Harvey) Kraft. - (11 June 2009) - G.M. Guiry
Womersley & Lewis (1994: 184) cite H. cliftonii Harvey 1859a: pl. 103: 1863: xlvi (in Part) as a synonym of Cryptonemia kallymenioides (Harvey) Kraft. Womersley (1996: 103) cites H. cliftonii Harvey 1863, synop.: xlvi (in part) as a synonym of Leptosomia rosea (Harvey) Womersley. See: Silva et al. (1996: 368, Note) and Womersley (1996: 105, last paragraph). - (19 March 2009) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 04 January 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 July 2025
