Laurencia tasmanica Hooker f. & Harvey 1849

Publication Details
Laurencia tasmanica Hooker f. & Harvey 1849: 84 (as 'Tasmanica')

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1849). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic regions; deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University. [Part 2]. pp. 65-124 [ends abruptly], pls XXVI-L. London: Reeve Brothers.

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Publication date: "before November 1849"

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Laurencia is Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Tasmania Gunn. (v.s. in Herb. T. C. D. comm. cl. Hooker" ; (Harvey 1849: 84) Holotype [probably Georgetown]: R.C. Gunn sine numero; BM; (Womersley 2003: 468) Notes: As Harvey specified seeing a specimen in TCD it seems more likely that the holotype is there and the BM specimen is isotype or a portion of the holotype.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 28 September 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 07 February 2024

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 November 2024

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