Chrysymenia wrightii (Harvey) Yamada 1932

Current name: Botryocladia wrightii (Harvey) W.E.Schmidt, D.L.Ballantine & Fredericq
Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 2005; TS showing hollow thallus and gland cellIgnacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Chrysymenia wrightii (Harvey) Yamada 1932: 118, fig. 4; pl. XXV [25]

Published in: Yamada, Y. (1932). Notes on some Japanese algae, III. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University 1: 109-123, 5 figs, pls XXI-XXV.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Chrysymenia is Chrysymenia ventricosa (J.V.Lamouroux) J.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Botryocladia wrightii (Harvey) W.E.Schmidt, D.L.Ballantine & Fredericq.

Source of Synonymy
Schmidt, W.E., Lozada-Troche, C., Ballantine, D.L., Arakaki, N., Gabriel, D., Norris, J.N. & Fredericq, S. (2017). Taxonomic transfer of the red algae Chrysymenia enteromorpha and C. wrightii to the genus Botryocladia (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodymeniales). Phytotaxa 324(2): 122-138, 30 figs, 2 tables.

Basionym
Halosaccion wrightii Harvey

Type Information
Type locality: "Hakodadi, Japan." [Hakodate, Hokkaido]; (Harvey 1860: 332) Lectotype: C. Wright; 'on rocks at low tide'; TCD; (Masuda & al. 1995: 196, fig. 19)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 28 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 26 August 2021

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Distributional note
This species was introduced accidentally, probably via oysters from Japan, into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 227), being first found in the Etang de Thau (France) in 1978. It has also been reported adventive in the NE Atlantic north to the south coast of England (Bunker 2014) and the west coast of Ireland (Roden pers. comm.). - (05 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 August 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025