Chondroclonium cornutum Kützing 1849
Current name:
Hypnea cornuta (Kützing) J.Agardh
Cape Peron, south of Perth, Western Australia - 25 May 2011. John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au)
Publication Details
Chondroclonium cornutum Kützing 1849: 741
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
Request PDFPublication date: 23-24 July 1849
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chondroclonium is Chondroclonium chamissoi (C.Agardh) Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Hypnea cornuta (Kützing) J.Agardh.
Source of Synonymy
Agardh, J.G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 1. pp. 337 [bis]-351 [bis] 352-506. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
Type Information
Type locality: "ad oras Guineae" fide J. Agardh (1851: 449) [stated by Kützing to be unknown]; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 21) Type: Herb. Lenormand, PC; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 21) Notes: "Locus natalis ignotus" (Silva et al. 1996: 296). "Ad oras Guineae" according to J. Agardh (1851: 449). According to South (2004: 137), the type locality is Guinea Coast, Atlantic Ocean.
Lewmanomont (1997: 180) notes that in Kützing (1849), the type citation (Gigartina cornutum Kützing) is "Gigartina cornuta Lamour-Locus natalis ignotus (v.s. in herb. Lenormand)." This specimen (in Lenormand's or Kützing's herbarium) is to be regarded as the lectotype of C. cornutum, later transferred to H. cornuta (Kützing) J. Agardh (1852).
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), horned.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 25 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 06 February 2017
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
