Sargassum polycystum

Sargassum polycystum (bottom, as S. elegans Greville, nom illeg., and S. brevifolium)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fucales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: TSAR Cladus: Sar Infraregnum: Heterokonta Phylum: Ochrophyta Subphylum: Phaeista Infraphylum: Limnista Superclassis: Fucistia Classis: Phaeophyceae Subclassis: Fucophycidae Ordo: Fucales

Familia: Sargassaceae
Genus: Sargassum
Species: Sargassum polycystum

Name

Sargassum polycystum C.Agardh, 1824: 304

• Type locality: Sunda Strait, Indonesia.
• Syntypes: TCD 1108, 1109.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Sargassum gaudichaudii Montagne, 1842
  • Sargassum myriocystum J.Agardh, 1848
  • Sargassum polycystum var. onustum J.Agardh, 1848
  • Carpacanthus gaudichaudii (Montagne) Kützing, 1849
  • Sargassum elegans Greville, 1849, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Sargassum elegans Suhr 1840)
  • Sargassum brevifolium Greville, 1849
  • Sargassum pygmaeum Kützing, 1849
  • Sargassum ambiguum Sonder, 1871
  • Sargassum polycystum var. horridulum Grunow, 1874
  • Sargassum opacum J.Agardh, 1889
  • Sargassum myriocystum var. elegans Grunow, 1915
  • Sargassum myriocystum f. horridula Grunow
  • Sargassum spinuligerum f. humilis Grunow

References

Primary references

• Agardh, C.A. 1824. Systema Algarum. pp. [i]–xxxvii, [1]–312. Lundae: Literis Berlingianis. BHL Reference page. 

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