Calothrix pilosa Harvey ex Bornet & Flahault 1886

Publication Details
Calothrix pilosa Harvey ex Bornet & Flahault 1886: 363

Published in: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1886). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 3: 323-381.

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Publication date: 1 Jan 1886

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Calothrix is Calothrix confervicola C.Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Scytonematopsis pilosa (Bornet & Flahault) Umezaki & M.Watanabe.

Source of Synonymy
Umezaki, I. & Watanabe, M. (1994). Enumeration of the Cyanophyta (blue-green algae) of Japan. 2. Nostocales and Stigonematales. Japanese Journal of Phycology 42(3): 301-324.

Type Information
Type locality: Key West, Florida, U.S.A; (Silva & al. 1996: 73) Type: W.H. Harvey; Bm (ex K); (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 6)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), soft-hairy.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 22 March 2001 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 04 September 2017

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Taxonomic note
It exists Calothrix pilosa Harvey 1858, Ner. Bor.-Amer. 3:106; pl. XLVIII.C. Devalidated name. (See INA) - (07 March 2025) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Conservational note
Widespread in warm seas; in sheltered habitats, forming mats on pneumatophores of Avicennia marina and rhizophores of Rhizophora mucronata as well as on mud (Lipkin & Silva 2002). - (28 May 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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