Acrochaetium sagraeanum (Montagne) Bornet

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium

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Publication details
Acrochaetium sagraeanum (Montagne) Bornet 1904: xxi

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Cladophora sagraena Montagne

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cladophora sagraena Montagne 1856

Taxonomic notes
Garbary (1987: 215) lists this species as a problematic and excluded species.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium sagraeanum (Montagne) Bornet)
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960).

North America: Connecticut (CT) (Taylor 1957), Mexico (Caribbean) (Mendoza-González, Mateo-Cid & García-López 2017), Virginia (VA) (Humm 1979).

Caribbean Islands: Barbados (Taylor 1960).

South America: Brazil (Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Aziz & Islam 2009).

Source of current name
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.

Created: 02 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 December 2019.