Acanthoceras echionotum (J.Agardh) Kützing 1849

Publication Details
Acanthoceras echionotum (J.Agardh) Kützing 1849: 684

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 23-24 July 1849

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acanthoceras is Acanthoceras shuttleworthianum Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Ceramium echionotum J.Agardh.

Basionym
Ceramium echionotum J.Agardh

Type Information
Lectotype locality: Devon (Torquay); (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 57) Lectotype: [A.M.] Griffiths; September, 1837; LD; 20792 (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 57) Notes: Herb. Lugd, Bat. 940.265.8: Lenormand specimen from Arromanches (Normandy)? (Dixon, 1959: 342). In Atlantico, Torquay, Gades; in mediterraneo ad oras Hispaniae et Galloprovinciae (INA).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), from echis (Greek), an adder, and noton (Greek), a back (Newton 1931).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 26 February 2024

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Luka Sato in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024

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