Gracilaria confervoides f. gracilis (Stackhouse) Grunow 1874

Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, L.M.Irvine & Farnham

Current name: Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, L.M.Irvine & Farnham
Dog's Bay, Roundstone, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants at low water on sandy rocks - 27 April 2006. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)

Publication Details
Gracilaria confervoides f. gracilis (Stackhouse) Grunow 1874: 42

Published in: Grunow, A. (1874). Algen der Fidschi-, Tonga- und Samoa-Inseln, gesammelt von Dr. E. Graeffe> Erste Folge: Phaeosporeae, Fucoideae und Florideae. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 3: 23-50.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gracilaria is Gracilaria compressa (C.Agardh) Greville.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, L.M.Irvine & Farnham.

Source of Synonymy
Steentoft, M., Irvine, L.M. & Farnham, W.F. (1995). Two terete species of Gracilaria and Gracilariopsis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) in Britain. Phycologia 34(2): 113-127, 37 figs.

Basionym
Fucus gracilis Stackhouse

Type Information
Type locality: "Padstow, Cornwall, and elsewhere", England; (Athanasiadis 1996: 63) Type: Stackhouse; BM; Notes: This type locality was first recorded as a lectotype without provenance by Steentoft, L.Irvine & Farnham (1995: 115, fig. 1) (Silva et al., 1996)

Origin of Species Name
Compound (Latin), resembling the genus Conferva.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 17 May 2001 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 10 December 2005

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 December 2005. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 11 December 2024

 
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