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Cystoseira humilis Schousboe ex Kützing 1860

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Subclass Fucophycidae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Cystoseira

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Madeira. Peter Wirtz. © Peter Wirtz (peterwirtz2004@yahoo.com ).

Madeira; with Cystoseira abies-marina. Peter Wirtz. © Peter Wirtz (peterwirtz2004@yahoo.com ).

Calafuria, Livorno, Italy; low-shore rockpool. 16 Apr 2007. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi (f.rindi@univpm.it).

Cystoseira humilis Schousboe ex Kützing Calafuria, Livorno, Italy; low-shore rockpool
© Fabio Rindi (f.rindi@univpm.it)

Publication details
Cystoseira humilis Schousboe ex Kützing 1860: 18, pl. 50: fig. II

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1860). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. X pp. i-iv, 1-39, 100 pls. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cystoseira is Cystoseira concatenata (Linnaeus) C.Agardh.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), low, low-growing (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cystoseira myriophylloides var. humilis (Schousboe ex Kützing) Giaccone 1973

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cystoseira barbata var. pumila Montagne 1841
Cystoseira pumila Kützing 1860
Cystoseira canariensis Sauvageau 1912

Nomenclatural notes
John et al. (2004) cite the authority for this species as (Schousb.) Kütz.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: "Tanger" (Kützing 1860: 18). Type: L? Notes: Athanasiadis (1996: 219) lists Kap Spartel, Morocco as the type locality. Tanger: Schousboe (Hb. Sonder) (INA).

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Key references
Cormaci, M., Furnari, G., Catra, M., Alongi, G. & Giaccone, G. (2012). Flora marina bentonica del Mediterraneo: Phaeophyceae. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia 45: 1-508.

De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Taskin, E., Jahn, R., Öztürk, M., Furnari, G. & Cormaci, M. (2012). The Mediterranean Cystoseira (with photographs). pp. [2] 1-75, photographs. Manisa, Turkey: Celar Bayar University.

Created: 04 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 21 July 2016 by Wendy Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Engelen, A.H., Espirito-Santo, C., Simões, T., Monteiro, C., Serrão E.A., Pearson, G.A. & Santos, R.O. P. (2008). Periodicity of propagule expulsion and settlement in the competing native and invasive brown seaweeds, Cystoseira humilis and Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyta). European Journal of Phycology 43(3): 275-282.
Pardi, G., Piazzi, L. & Cinelli, F. (2000). Demographic study of a Cystoseira humilis Kützing (Fucales: Cystoseiraceae) population in the western Mediterranean. Botanica Marina 43: 81-86, 6 figs.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 17 January 2021.

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