Paul Claude Silva

Paul Claude Silva (1922–2014), American phycologist.

Worked at University Herbarium, University of California at Berkeley.

IPNI standard form: P.C.Silva

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 212 taxon names authored by Paul Claude Silva

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1950s

• Silva, P.C. 1950. Generic names of algae proposed for conservation. Hydrobiologia 2: 252–280. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. 1952. A review of nomenclatural conservation in the algae from the point of view of the type method. University of California Publications in Botany 25: 241–323. Reference page. 
• Kasapligil, B., Mason, C.T., Shan, J.-H., Egerod, L.E., Silva, P.C., Tepfer, S.S., Constance, L. 1953. Floral anatomy and ontogeny in Aquilegia formosa var. truncata and Ranunculus repens. Morphological and Ontogenetic Studies of Umbellularia californica Nutt. and Laurus nobilis L.. University of California press, 25 pp. 135 Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. & Cleary, A.P. 1954. The structure and reproduction of the red alga Platysiphonia. American Journal of Botany 41: 251–260, 37 figs.
• Silva, P.C. 1957. Notes on Pacific marine algae. Madroño 14(2): 41–51. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. 1957. Remarks on algal nomenclature. Taxon 6: 141–145. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. 1959. Remarks on algal nomenclature II. Taxon 8: 60–64. DOI: 10.2307/1216032 JSTOR Reference page. 

1960

• Silva, P.C. 1960. Remarks on algal nomenclature III. Taxon 9: 18–25. DOI: 10.2307/1217351 JSTOR Reference page. 

1970

• Silva, P.C. 1970. Remarks on algal nomenclature IV. Taxon 19(6): 941–945. DOI: 10.2307/1218317 . JSTOR . Reference page. 

1979

• Moe, R.L. & Silva, P.C. 1979. Morphological and taxonomic studies on Antarctic Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyceae). I. Antarcticothamnion polysporum gen. et sp. nov. British Phycological Journal 14: 385–405. Reference page. 

1980s

• Silva, P.C. 1980. Names of classes and families of living algae: with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Regnum Vegetabile 103. 156 pp. ISBN 90-313-0410-7. Reference page. 
• Moe, R.L. & Silva, P.C. 1980. Morphological and taxonomic studies on Antarctic Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyceae). II. Pterothamnion antarcticum (Kylin) comb. nov. (Antithamnion antarcticum Kylin). British Phycological Journal 15: 1–17.
• Moe, R.L. & Silva, P.C. 1983. Morphological and taxonomic studies on Antarctic Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyceae). III. Georgiella and Plumariopsis (tribe Ptiloteae). British Phycological Journal 18: 275–298.
• Woelkerling, W.J., Chamberlain, Y.M. & Silva, P.C. 1985. A taxonomic and nomenclatural reassessment of Tenarea, Titanoderma and Dermatolithon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) based on studies of type and other critical specimens. Phycologia 24: 317–337, 39 figs, 2 tables. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. & Johansen, H.W. 1986. A reappraisal of the order Corallinales (Rhodophyceae). British Phycological Journal 21: 245–254. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C., Meñez, E.G. & Moe, R.L. 1987. Catalog of the benthic marine algae of the Philippines. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences 27: [i–ii] iii–iv, 1–179, 2 figs, 1 table. DOI: 10.5479/si.1943667X.27.1 Reference page. 
• Hegewald, E. & Silva, P.C. 1988. Annotated catalogue of Scenedesmus and nomenclaturally related genera: including original descriptions and figures. Bibliotheca Phycologica 80: i–xii, 1–586. ISBN 978-3-443-60007-5 Reference page. 
• Moe, R.L. & Silva, P.C. 1989. Desmarestia antarctica (Desmarestiales, Phaeophyceae), a new ligulate Antarctic species with an endophytic gametophyte. Plant Systematics and Evolution 164: 273–283. Reference page. 

1990s

• Silva, P.C. 1990. Hesperophycus Setchell & Gardner, nom. cons. prop., a problematic name applied to a distinctive genus of Fucaceae (Phaeophyceae). Taxon 39: 1–8. Reference page. 
• Deason, T.R., Silva, P.C., Watanabe, S. & Floyd, G.L. 1991. Taxonomic status of the species of the green algal genus Neochloris. Plant Systematics and Evolution 177: 213–219, 1 table. DOI: 10.1007/BF00937958 Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. & DeCew, T.C. 1992. Ahnfeltiopsis, a new genus in the Phyllophoraceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyceae). Phycologia 31: 576–580. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-31-6-576.1 Reference page. 
• Wynne, M.J., Ardré, F. & Silva, P.C. 1993. The identity of Fucus pepricarpos Poiret. Cryptogamie, Algologie 14(1): 37–42, 6 figs. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C. 1996. Taxonomic and nomenclatural status of Trochiscia Kützing and Trochiscia moniliformis Montagne. Cryptogamie, Algologie 17: 69–75. Reference page. 
• Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. 1996. Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1–1259. ISBN 978-0520-09810-7 Reference page. 
• Hanagata, N., Karube, I., Chihara, M. & Silva, P.C. 1998. Reconsideration of the taxonomy of ellipsoidal species of Chlorella (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), with establishment of Watanabea gen. nov. Phycological Research 46(4): 221–229, 40 figs. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1998.tb00117.x Reference page. 

2000s

• Hughey, J.R., Silva, P.C. & Hommersand, M.H. 2001. Solving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in Pacific Gigartinaceae (Rhodophyta) using DNA from type material. Journal of Phycology 37: 1091–1109. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2001.01048.x Reference page. 
• Lipkin, Y. & Silva, P.C. 2002. Marine algae and seagrasses of the Dahlak Archipelago, southern Red Sea. Nova Hedwigia 75(1–2): 1–90, 7 figs. DOI: 10.1127/0029-5035/2002/0075-0001 . Reference page. 
• Hayden, H.S., Blomster, J., Maggs, C.A., Silva, P.C., Stanhope, M.J. & Waaland, J.R. 2003. Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera. European Journal of Phycology. 38(3): 277–294. DOI: 10.1080/1364253031000136321 PDF Reference page. 
• Pröschold, T. & Silva, P.C. 2007. Proposal to change the listed type of Chlamydomonas Ehrenb., nom. cons. Taxon 56(2): 595–596. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar Rosas, R. 2008. Catálogo de las algas benthónicas del Pacífico de México II. Phaeophycota. pp. [i–viii], i–vi, 15–146. Mexicali & Berkeley: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and University of California Berkeley. Reference page. 

2010s

• Pröschold, T., Darienko, T., Silva, P.C., Reisser, W. & Krienitz, L. 2011. The systematics of Zoochlorella revisited employing an integrative approach. Environmental Microbiology 13(2): 350–364. DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02333.x Reference page. 

Eponyms

• Gracilariopsis silvana Gurgel, Fredericq & J.N.Norris, 2003