Thamnocarpus penicillatus (Harvey) J.Agardh 1876

Publication Details
Thamnocarpus penicillatus (Harvey) J.Agardh 1876: 83

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.

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Publication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Thamnocarpus is Thamnocarpus gunnianus Harvey.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Carpothamnion gunnianum (Harvey) Kützing.

Source of Synonymy
Womersley, H.B.S. (1998). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. pp. [1]-535, 235 figs, 4 col. figs in 2 pls. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

Basionym
Callithamnion penicillatum Harvey

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), shaped like a pencil or an artist'’s camel-hair brush (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 18 December 2008 by G.M. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 January 2024

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 January 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 December 2024

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