Acanthophora nayadiformis (Delile) Papenfuss 1968

Current name: Acanthophora nayadiformis (Delile) Papenfuss
Agios Kosmas, Saronikos Gulf, Greece, September 2009, 0,5m deep - 15 July 2011. Kostas Tsiamis (kostas.tsiamis@gmail.com)

Publication Details
Acanthophora nayadiformis (Delile) Papenfuss 1968: 96 (as 'najadiformis')

Published in: Papenfuss, G.F. (1968). A history, catalogue, and bibliography of the Red Sea benthic algae. Israel Journal of Botany 17: 1-118, 1 table, 1 folded map.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acanthophora is Acanthophora thierryi J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Fucus nayadiformis Delile

Type Information
Syntype localities: Al-Iskandariyah (Alexandria); As-Suways (Suez), Egypt; (Silva & al. 1996: 469) Notes: De Jong et al. (1999) give the following data for the type: LD 1001. 5a, Alexandria. However, Perrone et al. (2006) consider LD to be an error; the herbarium is BM.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 28 February 2017

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Taxonomic note
The spelling ‘najadiformis’ has been generally used (see Silva, Basson & Moe, 1996, p. 469). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
This species may have been introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 191) via an Egyptian "intermittant canal" precursor of the Suez Canal (Aleem 1948), which did not open until 1869. It was first found at Alendria in 1813 and 1826. It is now widespread in the eastern Mediterranean, although it has also been reported occasionally from the western basin. - (05 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

Habitat note
Warm waters. 1 m depth, on Turbinaria; in Chondrophycus papillosus community, on shallow rock flat gently sloping seawards (lipkin & Silva 2002). - (09 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025