Pterosiphonia stegengae

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Rhodomelaceae
Tribus: Pterosiphonieae
Genus: Pterosiphonia
Species: Pterosiphonia stegengae

Name

Pterosiphonia stegengae Savoie & G.W.Saunders, 2016

• Type locality: Preekstoel (–34.36720, 21.45785), Stilbaai, Western Cape, South Africa. Holotype: K. Dixon and J. Ferreira Costa; 25 November 2014; growing in the low intertidal on Aeolianite rock. UNB GWS036371. (Images of holotype: Figs. 5a–5d.)

• Named for Herre Stegenga, specialist of seaweed flora of South Africa.

References

• Savoie, A.M. & Saunders, G.W. 2016. A molecular phylogenetic and DNA barcode assessment of the tribe Pterosiphonieae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) emphasizing the Northeast Pacific. Botany 94: 917–939, 8 figs. DOI: 10.1139/cjb-2016-0083 Reference page. : 926, fig. 5
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Pterosiphonia stegengae. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 8 November 2017.