Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing 1849

Publication Details
Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing 1849: 496

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 23-24 July 1849

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Type Information
Type locality: "Mexico. (v. s.) - Specimen dedit. cl. Binder." [Atlantic Coast of Mexico]; (Kützing 1849: 496) Type: L; (de Bolós & Masclans 1955: 63)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latin), pertaining to Mexico (Stearn 1992).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 12 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 14 May 2024

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Nomenclatural note
According to Silva et al. (1996) the name Caulerpa pinnata has been misapplied to this species by Greville (1853a: 1-2, pl. I: upper figs. 1,2), Greville (1853b: 197-198, pl. III: upper figs. 1,2) and Weber-van Bosse (1898: 290, pl. XXIV: fig. 1). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
This species apparently was introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 253) via the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869; it was first found in Israel and Lemanon in 1939 and is now widespread on the Levantine coast. - (06 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

Habitat note
Widespread in most warm seas. On a rock flat overlain by a layer of calcareous sand a few mm thick, and covered, even at low tides, by 20-50 cm of water; in Chondrophycus papillosus and Caulerpa racemosa communities (Lipkin & Silva 2002). - (22 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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