Acrochaetium nemalii (De Notaris ex Dufour) Børgesen 1915
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium
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Publication details
Acrochaetium nemalii (De Notaris ex Dufour) Børgesen 1915: 57
Published in: Børgesen, F. (1915). The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3. Rhodophyceae (1). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 1-80, Figs 1-86. Download PDF
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Colaconema nemalii (De Notaris ex Dufour) Stegenga
Basionym
Callithamnion nemalii De Notaris ex Dufour
Type information
Type locality: Cornigliano, Genova, Italy (Athanasiadis 1996: 26).BM?
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
Nomenclatural notes
Nemalion is a noun in the second declension neuter with the genitive nemalii (see Nicholson & Norris 1983). - (13 Dec 2015) - M.D. Guiry
General environment
This is a marine species.
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Source of current name
Stegenga, H. (1985). The marine Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta) of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 51: 291-330, 25 figs, 1 table.
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Nicolson, D.H. & Norris, J.N. (1983). Ordinal orthography: Nemalionales vs. Nemaliales (Rhodophyta). Taxon 32: 288-292.
Created: 08 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 January 2021 by M.D. Guiry
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