Scytosiphon dotyi M.J.Wynne 1969

Current name: Scytosiphon dotyi M.J.Wynne
upper intertidal, North of Spain, Spain, 2011Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Scytosiphon dotyi M.J.Wynne 1969: 34, fig. 9: pl. 18, 19

Published in: Wynne, M.J. (1969). Life history and systematic studies of some Pacific North American Phaeophyceae (brown algae). University of California Publications in Botany 50: 1-88.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Scytosiphon is Scytosiphon filum var. lomentaria (Lyngbye) C.Agardh.

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

Type Information
Type locality: USA: California: San Mateo Co.: Pillar Point [immediately north of Half Moon Bay]; (Wynne 1969: 34) Holotype: Wynne 525; 22.xii.1965; UC; 1110569 (Wynne 1969: 34)

Eponomy
Named for Maxwell Stanford Doty (1916-1996), American phycologist, ecologist and aquaculturalist.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 05 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 October 2024

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Distributional note
This species has been introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 99) ariving at Trieste in the nothern Adriatic some time between 1960 and 1970. - (04 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

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