Porphyra woolhouseae Harvey 1863

Publication Details
Porphyra woolhouseae Harvey 1863: pl. CCLXV [265] (as 'Woolhousiae')

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1863). Phycologia australica: or, a history of Australian seaweeds; comprising coloured figures and descriptions of the more characteristic marine algae of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia, and a synopsis of all known Australian algae. Vol. 5. pp. [i]-x, v-lxxiii (Synoptic catalogue), Plates CCXLI-CCC (with text). London: Lovell Reeve.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Porphyra is Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh.

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

Type Information
Type locality: "Parasitical on the leaves of Macrocystis pyrifera, Tasmania, Miss Woolhouse"; (Harvey 1863: pl. CCLXV) Type: TCD; (Womersley 1994: 37) Notes: Illustrated by Harvey (1863, pl. 265, fig. 1) (Ricker, 1987). Womersley (1994: 37) notes that the type material is located in TCD.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 24 February 2023

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 February 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024

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