Salishia

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Kallymeniaceae
Genus: Salishia

Species: S. chilensis – S. firma – S. sanguinea

Name

Salishia Clarkston & G.W.Saunders, 2012

• Type species: Salishia firma (Kylin) Clarkston & G.W.Saunders
• Eponymy: Named for the Salish Sea.

Synonyms

• Microcoelia J.Agardh, 1876, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Microcoelia Lindley, 1830, Orchidaceae)
  • Type species: Microcoelia chilensis J.Agardh

References

• Clarkston, B.E. & Saunders, G.W. 2012. An examination of the red algal genus Pugetia (Kallymeniaceae, Gigartinales), with descriptions of Salishia firma gen. & comb. nov., Pugetia cryptica sp. nov. and Beringia wynnei sp. nov.. Phycologia 51(1): 33–61. DOI: 10.2216/11-01.1 Reference page. : 51
• Saunders, G.W., Huisman, J.M., Vergés, A., Kraft, G.T. & Le Gall, L. 2017. Phylogenetic analyses support recognition of ten new genera, ten new species and 16 new combinations in the family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie, Algologie 38(2): 79–132, 126 figs. DOI: 10.7872/crya/v38.iss2.2017.79 Reference page. 
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2018. Salishia. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. 2018-02-01.