Ulva cavernosa Forsskål 1775

Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen

Current name: Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen
1, 4. Habit, low intertidal (My Hoa, Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam). 2. Surface view of cell with connecting hapteroid cells. 3. Surface view of hapteroid cells. - 29 February 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)

Publication Details
Ulva cavernosa Forsskål 1775: 187, no fig.

Published in: Forsskål, P. (1775). Flora Aegyptiaca-Arabica sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabium delicem detexit illustravit Petrus Forskål. Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. pp. [1]-32, [i]- xxxvi, ... [1]-219, [220, err.], map. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]: ex officina Mölleri.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen.

Type Information
Type locality: No locality cited; (Forsskål 1775: 187) Syntypes [southern Red Sea: Al Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia; Al Mukha, Yemen]: Forsskål; C; (Børgesen 1932: 2, pl. 1: fig. 1) Notes: No locality was listed by Forsskål in the publication. Børgesen (1932: 2) reported "Several well preserved specimens are present [collected by Forsskål]. "Ad Gamfodae & Mochhae littora." [Al Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia; Al Mukha, Yemen]

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 05 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 March 2023

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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