Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey 1833

Publication Details
Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey 1833: 335

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1833). Div. I. Inarticulatae. Div. II. Confervoideae; Div. III. Gloiocladeae. In: The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Vol. V. (or Vol. II of Dr. Hooker's British flora). Part I. Comprising the Mosses, Hepaticae, Lichens, Characeae and Algae. (Hooker, W.J. Eds), pp. 259-262, 264-401. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Paternoster-Row.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dasya is Dasya pedicellata (C.Agardh) C.Agardh.

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

Type Information
Syntype localities: Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland; Shores of Orkney and Caithness, Scotland; Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, Ireland; Kingstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland.; (Harvey 1833: 335) Lectotype (Bantry Bay; designated by Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 272): BM; sine numero (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 272) Notes: Syntype localities:

Eponomy
Named for Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815), Irish botanist.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Rather crisp, bushy, crimson to brownish red fronds, to 100 mm long. Branches numerous, irregular, densely clothed with stiff, patent, repeatedly dichotomous monosiphonous rauli. Ramuli to 20 um diam., with blunt apices, cells 3-4 times as long as broad. Main axis with central siphon and 5 pericentral siphons, corticated.

Habitat
On rocks or epiphytic, shady low intertidal pools and subtidal, southern and western coasts to Orkney Islands, occasional.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 December 2023

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Taxonomic note
John &t al. (2004) cite Dasya arbuscula (Dillwyn) C. Agardh as a synonym of this species. Furnari et al. (2003) note that "although D. arbuscula (Brown ex Dillwyn) C. Agardh is a taxonomic synonym of Aglaothamnion sepositum (Gunnerus) Maggs & Hommersand, we follow Gómez Garreta et al. (2001) in considering Italian records of D. arbuscula as sensu Harvey. Therefore, they are here referred to D. hutchinsiae." Includes Dasya arbuscula sensu Harvey (1849, pl. CCIV). "This species, in the Mediterranean Sea was erroneously recorded as Dasya arbuscula (Dillwyn) C. Agardh [= Aglaothamnion sepositum (Gunnerus) Maggs et Hommersand taxon excludendum]. Agreeing with Gómez Garreta et al. (2001: 444, note no. 75), the above records are here referred to as D. arbuscula sensu Harvey and consequently to D. hutchinsiae. It should be noted that Dasya arbuscula var. villosa was erroneously considered by Furnari et al. (1999: 29 and 2003: 91) as a synonym of D. hutchinsiae instead of D. corymbifera (see the note to a D. corymbifera)." (Cormaci & al. 2023: 526). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025

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