Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne 1842

Current name: Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne
with Petrospongium berkelyi, North of Spain, 2010 - 21 October 2011. Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne 1842: 370

Published in: Decaisne, J. (1842). Essais sur une classification des algues et des polypiers calcifères de Lamouroux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Seconde Série 17: 297-380, [pls 14-17].

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Leathesia is Leathesia tuberiformis S.F.Gray.

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

Basionym
Chaetophora marina Lyngbye

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), growing in the sea (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 01 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 11 October 2024

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Nomenclatural notes
The genus Tremella Linnaeus (1753: 1157) was lectotypified by Tremella nostoc Linnaeus by Donk (1958: 245). As this is an entity with a later starting point (ICBN Art. 13.1, Nostocaceae heterocystaceae), under the provisions of ICBN Art. 13.2, all included species in the genus Tremella thus also have a later starting point (1 January 1886), regardless of their current generic placement. Tremella difformis Linnaeus (1755: 429) is thus not a valid name dating from 1755. Nostoc marinum C. Agardh (1812: 45) is similarly invalid. The earliest valid name that can be used for the entity widely known as Leathesia difformis is Chaetophora marina Lyngbye (Pedroche et al. 2008: 60). Leathesia difformis can be ascribed to J.E. Areschoug, 1847, but priority must be given to Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne, 1842. - (12 March 2009) - M.D. Guiry
Binomial also proposed by J. Agardh 1848. Sp. Alg. 1: 52, with Basionym Nostoc marinum C. Agardh 1812. (See INA) - (19 December 2018) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Distributional note
"This cosmopolitan species, in the Mediterranean Sea was accidentally introduced by aquaculture (Cormaci et al., 2004: 179, as L. difformis)." (Cormaci et al. 2012: 166). It was first found in the Etang de Thau (France) around 1905 (Verlaque et al. 2015: 69). - (27 August 2015) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 October 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2025