Pterosiphonia fibrillosa Okamura 1912

Current name: Melanothamnus fibrillosus (Okamura) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs
Sotogawa-cho, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Chiba UniversityHideki Haga (902180827@office.chiba-u.jp)

Publication Details
Pterosiphonia fibrillosa Okamura 1912: 172, pl. XCVIII

Published in: Okamura, K. (1912). Icones of Japanese Algae. pp. 86-90, pls LXXXVI-C. Tokyo: The Author.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Pterosiphonia is Pterosiphonia cloiophylla (C.Agardh) Falkenberg.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Melanothamnus fibrillosus (Okamura) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs.

Source of Synonymy
Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. (2017). The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1-20, 77 figs.

Type Information
Type locality: Shirahama, Chiba Pref., Japan ; (Uwai & Masuda 1999: 227) Lectotype: SAP (Okamura Herbarium); the larger of two specimens (Uwai & Masuda 1999: 227, fig. 1)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 12 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 May 2017

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 June 2025