Alaria linearis Strömfelt 1886
Publication details
Alaria linearis Strömfelt 1886: 38, pl. II, figs 2, 3
Published in: Strömfelt, H.F.G. (1886). Om Algvegetationen vid Islands Kuster Akademisk Afhandling [About the Algae vegetation on the Icelandic coast. Academic Dissertation]. pp. 1-89. Göteborg: D.F. Bonniers Boktryckeri. [in Swedish]
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Publication date: "December 1886"
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Alaria is Alaria esculenta (Linnaeus) Greville.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Alaria esculenta (Linnaeus) Greville
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), linear (Stearn 1973).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
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Source of current name
Widdowson, T.B. (1971). A taxonomic revision of the genus Alaria Greville. Syesis 4: 11-49.
Key references
De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020.
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