Polysiphonia paniculata Montagne 1842
Publication Details
Polysiphonia paniculata Montagne 1842: 254, pl. 2, fig. 2
Published in: Montagne, C. (1842). Troisième centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles. Décades V, VI, VII et VIII. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Seconde Série 18: 241-282, pl. 7.
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The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Eutrichosiphonia paniculata (Montagne) D.E.Bustamante & T.O.Cho.
Source of Synonymy
Bustamante, D.E., Won, B.Y., Wynne, M.J. & Cho, T.O. (2021). Molecular and morphological analyses reveal new taxa additions to the tribe Streblocladieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 57(3): 817-830.
Type Information
Type locality: Peru; (INA 1996) Type: Gaudichaud Bot. Voy. Bonite, t.2.f.2.; "ad frondes Ulva nematoides"; (INA 1996)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), paniculate.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 16 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 06 October 2021
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Taxonomic notes
Díaz-Tapia (2017: 23) write "Polysiphonia paniculata was transferred to Neosiphonia (Norris, 2014), but again it is not in the Melanothamnus clade (Figs 1, 2)." - (03 February 2017) - M.D. Guiry
Vertebrata? The position of Polysiphonia paniculata in rbcL and 18S trees are not congruent. This suggests that these two sequences, generated from samples from Chile and California, respectively, were obtained from different species (Díaz-Tapia et al., 2017). - (04 May 2017) - G.M. Guiry
Distributional note
This species was introduced accidentally, probably via shipping, into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 187), being first found in the Etang de Thau (France) in 1967. - (05 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025
