Colaconema ophioglossum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colaconematales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Eurhodophytina Classis: Florideophyceae Subclassis: Nemaliophycidae Ordo: Colaconematales

Familia: Colaconemataceae
Genus: Colaconema
Species: Colaconema ophioglossum

Name

Colaconema ophioglossum (C.W.Schneider) Afonso-Carrillo, M.Sansón & Sangil, 2003: 109, figs. 1–11

• Type locality: Onslow Bay (34°23.0'N 76°36.0'W), North Carolina, USA.
• Holotype: R.B.Searles; 1973-07-20; reef; 22 m deep; in Drudesnaya crassa; DUKE 16585.
• Isotypes: DUKE 16586, 16587; US88918.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Audouinella ophioglossa C.W.Schneider, 1983: 13-14, figs. 3 a–p
• Homotypic
  • Acrochaetium ophioglossum (C.W.Schneider) D.L.Ballantine & Aponte, 1997

References

Primary references

• Afonso-Carrillo, J., Sansón, M. & Sangil, C. 2003. Colaconema ophioglossum comb. nov. and Liagorophila endophytica, two acrochaetioid algae (Rhodophyta) from the eastern Atlantic. Cryptogamie, Algologie 24: 107–116. PDF Reference page. 
• Schneider, C.W. 1983. The red algal genus Audouinella Bory (Nemaliales: Arochaetiaceae) from North Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 22: i–iii, 1–25. BHL Reference page.