Roberta Ann Townsend

Roberta Ann Townsend (born 1954), phycologist.

IPNI standard form: R.A.Towns.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Townsend, R.A. 1979. Synarthrophyton, a new genus of Corallinaceae (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyta) from the southern hemisphere. Journal of Phycology 15: 251–259, 18 figs, 1 table. Reference page.
Adey, W.H., Townsend, R.A. & Boykins, W.T. 1982. The crustose coralline algae (Rhodophyta: Corallinaceae) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 15: [1]–iv, [1]–74, 47 figs. Reference page.
Huisman, J.M. & Townsend, R.A. 1993. An examination of Linnaean and pre-Linnaean taxa referable to Galaxaura and Tricleocarpa (Galaxauraceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 113: 95–101, 2 figs, 2 tables. Reference page.
Townsend, R.A., Chamberlain, Y.M. & Keats, D.W. 1994. Heydrichia woelkerlingii gen. & sp. nov., a newly discovered non-geniculate red alga (Coralinales, Rhodophyta) from Cape Province, South Africa. Phycologia 33: 177–186, 24 figs.
Townsend, R.A. & Borowitzka, M.A. 2001. Heydrichia homalopasta sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Rhodophyta) from Australia. Botanica Marina 44: 237–244. DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2001.031
Townsend, R.A. & Huisman, J.M. 2004. Epulo multipedes gen. et sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta), a coralline parasite from Australia. Phycologia 43: 288–295.