Zygogonium ericetorum Kützing 1843

Current name: Zygogonium ericetorum Kützing
In tufa deposits, Caher River, Fanore, Ireland. Collected by Melinda Lyons. - 17 June 2011. C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication Details
Zygogonium ericetorum Kützing 1843: 280

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 14-16 Sep 1843

Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Zygogonium.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Obergurgl/Austria; (Stancheva & al. 2025) Notes: See Conferva ericetorum Roth.

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 25 April 2025

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Nomenclatural notes
In ING and INA the authority is cited as (Roth) Kuetzing 1843: 280 (Conferva ericetorum Roth 1800: 507). C. ericetorum Roth 1800 (non Bory 1797). Guiry (2013: 12) concluded: "Conferva ericetorum Roth (1800, p. 507), which Kützing (1833, p. [2]) references, is a later homonym of Conferva ericetorum Bory de Saint-Vincent (1797, p. 36) and is thus illegitimate; it cannot therefore act as the basionym for Zygogonium ericetorum, which should thus be attributed solely to Kützing. The fact that this is a relatively uncommon epithet suggests to me that C. ericetorum Roth, C. ericetorum Bory de Saint-Vincent and Leda ericetorum Bory de Saint-Vincent must surely be connected, but Roth (1800, pp. 507, 508) makes no reference to Bory%u2019s names." Stancheva et al. (2014: 798) follow Guiry's suggestion of employing Kützing's name as a new name. - (18 May 2012) - G.M. Guiry
According to Stancheva et al. (2014: 798), Zygogonium ericetorum was originally described as Conferva ericetorun by Bory de Saint-Vincent (1797) from the soil of a moor in St. Magne, southwestern France, and then illustrated by him as Leda ericetorum (Bory de Saint-Vincent 1822, fig 8, B-E). Confusion in Z. ericetourm nomenclature is partially due to Kützing (1843), who proposed a new genus Zygogonium, referencing a specimen in his exsiccatae (Kützing Alg. Dec. No. 51). In the exsiccatae, Kützing lists the author of C. ericetorum as Roth with no reference to Bory de Saint-Vincent. - (27 November 2014) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Alpine habitat (Stancheva et al., 2014). - (27 November 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 April 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 June 2025