Lobophora rickeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dictyotales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Chromista Subregnum: Harosa Infraregnum: Heterokonta Phylum: Ochrophyta Subphylum: Phaeista Infraphylum: Limnista Superclassis: Fucistia Classis: Phaeophyceae Subclassis: Dictyotophycidae Ordo: Dictyotales

Familia: Dictyotaceae
Genus: Lobophora
Species: Lobophora rickeri

Name

Lobophora rickeri Kraft, 2009

• Type locality: Wistari Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
• Holotype: R.W. Ricker & G. Norbury; 22 Nov. 1982; 9 m, on encrusting coralline algae along the central NE reef slope. MELU KA-00355. (kept in formaldehyde, impeding DNA sequencing, and type material ambiguous )
• Epitype (designated by Vieira et al. 2016: 700): Australia, Lord Howe Island, G.W. Saunders GWS022754 (UNB).

References

• Kraft, G.T. 2009. Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 2. Brown algae. pp. [i–iv], v–vi, 1–364, 107 figs. Erratum of fig. 73 from vol. 1. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study and CSIRO Publishing. Reference page. : 210, 336, fig. 67A–J
• Vieira, C., Camacho, O., Wynne, M.J., Mattio, L., Anderson, R.J., Bolton, J.J., Sansón, M., D'hondt, S., Leliaert, F., Fredericq, S., Payri, C. & De Clerck, O. 2016. Shedding new light on old algae: Matching names and sequences in the brown algal genus Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae). Taxon 65(4): 689–707. DOI: 10.12705/654.1 Reference page. 
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. Lobophora rickeri. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2019-03-01.