Elachista flaccida (Dillwyn) Fries 1835

Current name: Elachista flaccida (Dillwyn) Fries
Elachista flaccida over Cystoseira baccata, Ría de A. Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2013, Ignacio Bárbara" Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Elachista flaccida (Dillwyn) Fries 1835: 317

Published in: Fries, E.M. (1835). Corpus florarum provincialium Sueciae. I. Floram scanicam. pp. [i]-xxiv, [1]-394. Upsaliae [Uppsala]: typis Palmblad, Serell & C.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Elachista is Elachista scutellata Duby.

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

Basionym
Conferva flaccida Dillwyn

Type Information
Type locality: On Fucus fibrosus [Gongolaria baccata (S.G.Gmelin) Molinari & Guiry], Santon Sands, [North] Devon, Miss Hill.; (Dillwyn 1809: 53)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), flaccid, not able to hold up its own weight (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 07 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 October 2024

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Nomenclatural note
Stegenga & Mol (1983: 92) cite this species as Elachista flaccida (Dillwyn) Areschoug. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
Nielsen & Gunnarsson (2001: 92) record this species as being an excluded species for the Faroe Islands. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 October 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 June 2025