Ulva australis Areschoug 1854
Current name:
Ulva australis Areschoug
North of Portugal, 2012Ignacio Barbara
Publication Details
Ulva australis Areschoug 1854: 370
Published in: Areschoug, J.E. (1854). Phyceae novae et minus cognitae in maribus extraeuropaeis collectae. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, series 3 1: 329-372.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "In caulibus Cauliniae antarcticae parasitica, ad oram Novae Hollandiae australem in sinu Port Adelaide." [Port Adelaide, South Australia, on the stems of Amphibolis antarctica]; (Areschoug 1854: 370) Lectotype: S; (Womersley 1984: 141) Notes: Womersley (1984: 141) notes that the type sheet consists of four specimens.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), south, southern (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 30 April 2000 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 01 February 2024
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Taxonomic note
According to Kirkendale et al. (2013: table 1), New South Wales collections field identified as U. ranunculata Kraft & A. Miller fall in this group. - (15 May 2013) - G.M. Guiry
Distributional note
This species was introduced accidentally, probably via oysters from Japan or elsewhere in the NW Pacific, into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 281), being first found in the Etang de Thau (France) in 1984. Other introduced populations are likely worldwide. - (06 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry
Habitat note
Epilithic mainly, but some older individual floating (Lee et al., 2019). - (05 February 2020) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 April 2025
