Ganonema farinosum (J.V.Lamouroux) K.-C.Fan & Yung C.Wang 1974

Publication Details
Ganonema farinosum (J.V.Lamouroux) K.-C.Fan & Yung C.Wang 1974: 492, pl. 1 (as 'farinosa')

Published in: Fan, K.-C. & Wang, Y.-C. (1974). Studies on the marine algae of Hsisha Islands, China I. Ganonema gen. nov. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 12(4): 489-495, 2 pls. [in Chinese and Latin with English summary]

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Publication date: "Oct. 1974"

Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Ganonema.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Liagora farinosa J.V.Lamouroux

Type Information
Type locality: "Aux environs de Suez , dans la Mer rouge. Ded. Delile." [Suez, Red Sea, Egypt]; (Lamouroux 1816: 240) Lectotype: CN; (Yoshida 1998: 511) Notes: Dawson (1953: 43) incorrectly cites type locality as Haha-zima and Titi-zima, Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Type was illustrated by Abbott (Cryptogamie, Algologie, 11: fig. 23).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), mealy, covered with farina (flour-like, powdery covering) (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Found in tropical to warm-temperate seas worldwide (Huisman 2006: 43).

Created: 29 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 May 2024

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Taxonomic note
According to Børgesen (1949: 34) (Silva et al. (1996), the name Liagora pulverulenta has been misapplied to this species by Dickie (1874: 195) - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
This species, originally described from Suez in the Red Sea, is considered to have been at least partly introduced into the Mediterranean by some authorities (e.g., Verlaque et al. 2015: 181) via the Suez Canal. It was first found in Upper Egypt in 1808 (Bory 1832; Hamel 1931) prior to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and Verlaque et al. (2015: 181) postulate the co-occurrence of native and introduced populations in the Mediterranean. The species is now widespread in the eastern Mediterranean (the Levant and Turkey), although it has also been reported from Sicily, the Adriatic (Albania), Greece, and Mediterranean Spain. - (05 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

Habitat note
from the lower intertidal and upper subtidal down to 18-m depths; epilithic (Huisman, 2002). - (07 August 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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Francisco F. Pedroche in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 May 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 06 April 2025

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