Rhodymenia erythraea Zanardini 1858
Publication Details
Rhodymenia erythraea Zanardini 1858: 276
Published in: Zanardini, J.[=G.] (1858 '1857'). Plantarum in mari Rubro hucusque collectarum enumerato (juvante A. Figari). Memoirie del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 7: 209-309, pls III-XIV.
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The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodymenia is Rhodymenia palmetta (Stackhouse) Greville.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Hodeida, Yemen; (Silva & al. 1996: 369)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 21 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 27 August 2021
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Taxonomic note
"This species, introduced into the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal (Cormaci et al. 2004: 173), was recorded in that Sea only once by Aleem (1948: 89, figs 5-7) from Port Said (Egypt). According to Verlaque et al. (2015: 228) the species is character-ized by the following characters:
i. thallus laminar, fan-shaped with denticulate edges;
ii. pseudoparenchymatous structure with a 2-3 layered medulla of large elongate cells and a cortex of small cells;
iii. procarps with an auxiliary cell and a three-celled carpogonial branch." (Cormaci, Furnari & Alongi 2021: 274) - (27 August 2021) - M.D. Guiry
Distributional note
Reported from Alexandria in Egypt (Aleem 1948) as a migrant through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, but there have been no further reports (Verlaque et al. 2015: 229). - (05 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 August 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025
