Plocamium mertensii (Greville) Harvey 1849

Publication Details
Plocamium mertensii (Greville) Harvey 1849: 122

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1849). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic regions; deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University. [Part 2]. pp. 65-124 [ends abruptly], pls XXVI-L. London: Reeve Brothers.

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Publication date: "before November 1849"

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Plocamium is Plocamium vulgare J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Thamnophora mertensii Greville

Type Information
Type locality: "Hab. ad Novam Hollandiam; unde misit D. Fraser." [Western Australia]; (Greville 1830: xlix) Lectotype (designated by Womersley 1994: 385: "Type from "Novae Hollandiae" (Fraser); lectotype in Herb. Greville, E."): E; herb. Greville (Womersley 1994: 385)

Origin of Species Name
(Latinised), named for Dr Mertens

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Found on coasts of strong to moderate wave action and known from shaded pools near low tide level to 50 m deep (Womersley 1994: 385).

Created: 20 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 20 March 2023

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Distributional note
Absent from South Africa (Reddin et al., 2023). - (20 March 2023) - G.M. Guiry

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 31 May 2025

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