Padina boergesenii Allender & Kraft 1983
Current name: Padina boergesenii Allender & KraftABC Taxa (eric.coppejans@ugent.be)
Publication Details
Padina boergesenii Allender & Kraft 1983: 87, fig. 6 C, H, I; fig. 7 C, D
Published in: Allender, B.M. & Kraft, G.T. (1983). The marine algae of Lord Howe Island (New South Wales): the Dictyotales and Cutleriales (Phaeophyta). Brunonia 6: 73-130, 29 figs.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Padina is Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: U.S. Virgin Islands; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 44) Type: MEL; 47044 (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 44) Notes: Hohenacker Alg. Mar. Sicc., fasc. 11, no. 515 (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 44)
Eponomy
Named for the Danish phycologist F. Børgesen (1866-1956).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 11 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 23 November 2021
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Distributional note
This species has been introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 77) being first found in Mediterranean Israel in 1962-65. - (04 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry
Habitat note
Widespread in warm seas, extending to warm temperate waters. 1 m depth; in Chondrophycus paillosus community, with epiphytic Polysiphonia, Chondria, Cladophora, Enteromorpha and Ceramium; in Caulerpa racemosa community, with epiphytic Cladophora, Polysiphonia, Chondrophycus papillosus and Hypnea; with Bryopsis plumosa; with Chaetomorpha, Cladophora and epiphytic Polysiphonia; on rock flat ca. 30 cm below low water (Lipkin & Silva 2002). - (15 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 November 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2025
