Carpomitra costata var. mediterranea (Feldmann) Feldmann 1937
Publication Details
Carpomitra costata var. mediterranea (Feldmann) Feldmann 1937: 302
Published in: Feldmann, J. (1937). Les algues marines de la côte des Albères. I-III. Cyanophycées, Chlorophycées, Phaéophycées. Revue Algologique 9: 141(bis)-148(bis); 149-335, 67 figs, pls 8-17.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Carpomitra is Carpomitra cabrerae (Clemente) Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Carpomitra cabrerea var. mediterranea Feldmann
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), ribbed, having one or more primary veins or ridges (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 11 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 27 August 2015
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Taxonomic note
"Ribera et al. (1992) reported C. costata
v. costata from Sicily, the Adriatic Sea and Algeria.
However, since: i. from a check of herbarium
specimens we can confirm that Sicilian
specimens belong to C. costata var. mediterranea;
ii. from the Adriatic Sea were recorded
only Sporochnus dichotomus Zanardini, C. cabrerae
(Clemente) Kützing and C. costata v. dichotoma
Feldmann that according to Feldmann
(1932) should be all referred to C. costata v. mediterranea;
iii. reports from Algeria by Boudouresque
& Perret-Seridi (1989) as "C. costata (C.
costata v. mediterranea included)", are probably
to be referred to only C. costata v. mediterranea;
iv. Rindi et al. (2002) confirmed that in
both Islands and continental Tuscany coast only
C. costata v. mediterranea occurs, v. the Mediterranean
reports as C. costata or C. cabrerae all
predate the description of the variety "mediterranea";
it is highly probable that the occurrence
of C. costata v. costata in the Mediterranean Sea
is limited to Spanish coast close to the Straits of
Gibraltar on the basis of records by Flores-Moya
et al. (1995) and Báez et al. (2001)." (Cormaci et al. 2012: 440). - (27 August 2015) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 August 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 April 2025
