Melanothamnus harveyi

Melanothamnus harveyi (fig. c, bottom)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ceramiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Rhodophytina Classis: Florideophyceae Subclassis: Rhodymeniophycidae Ordo: Ceramiales

Familia: Rhodomelaceae
Tribus: Streblocladieae
Genus: Melanothamnus
Species: Melanothamnus harveyi

Name

Melanothamnus harveyi (Bailey) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, in Díaz-Tapia et al., 2017

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Polysiphonia harveyi Bailey, 1848
    • Lectotype locality: Stonington, Connecticut, USA.
    • Lectotype: Bailey; July 1847; TCD 12810 (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 343). Co-types: BM-K.
    • named for William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish botanist and phycologist.
• Homotypic
  • Neosiphonia harveyi (Bailey) M.-S.Kim, H.-G.Choi, Guiry & G.W.Saunders, 2001
• Heterotypic
  • Polysiphonia havanensis f. insidiosa J.Agardh, 1863
  • Polysiphonia insidiosa (J.Agardh) P.Crouan & H.Crouan, 1867, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Polysiphonia insidiosa Greville ex J.Agardh 1863)
  • Polysiphonia novae-angliae W.R.Taylor, 1937
  • Polysiphonia argentinica W.R.Taylor, 1939

References

• Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. 2017. The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1–20, 77 figs. DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2016.1256436 Reference page. : 7
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Melanothamnus harveyi. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 17 November 2017.

Vernacular names

English: Harvey's siphon weed

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