Chorda lomentaria Lyngbye 1819
Current name:
Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; in coralline pools at MTL - 22 March 2002. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Chorda lomentaria Lyngbye 1819: 74, pl. 18 E
Published in: Lyngbye, H.C. (1819). Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae continens omnia hydrophyta cryptogama Daniae, Holsatiae, Faeroae, Islandiae, Groenlandiae hucusque cognita, systematice disposita, descripta et iconibus illustrata, adjectis simul speciebus norvegicis. pp. [i]-xxxii, [1]-248, 70 pls. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: typis Schultzianis, in commissis Librariae Gyldendaliae.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chorda is Chorda filum (Linnaeus) Stackhouse.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link.
Type Information
Syntype localities: "Habitat in infimo refluxus limite ad littora Faeroensia, ut a Qvivig, copiosa. Ad Hammerhuus Bornholmiae" [Quivig, Faeroe Islands and Bornholm, Denmark]; (Lyngbye 1819: 74) Type: C; (Womersley 1987: 295) Notes: Womersley (1987: 295) gives the following data: Type from Quivig, Faroe Is; in Herb Lyngbye, C, which could constitute a lectotypification.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 24 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 02 November 2022
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 November 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024