Rhodochorton microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) K.M.Drew 1928
Current name:
Acrochaetium microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Nägeli
Hawaii; growing on Chaetomorpha; scale 20 µm - 12 August 2011. J.M. Huisman
Publication Details
Rhodochorton microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) K.M.Drew 1928: 163
Published in: Drew, K.M. (1928). A revision of the genera Chantransia, Rhodocorton and Acrochaetium with descriptions of the marine species of Rhodochorton (Naeg.) gen. emend. on the Pacific coast of North America. University of California Publications in Botany 14: 139-224, pls 37-48.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (type conserved) of the genus Rhodochorton is Rhodochorton purpureum (Lightfoot) Rosenvinge.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Acrochaetium microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Nägeli.
Source of Synonymy
Nägeli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10(7): i-viii, 1-139, pls I-VIII.
Basionym
Callithamnion microscopicum Nägeli ex Kützing
Type Information
Type locality: "Golfo di Napoli, Italy" [Holotype from Torquay, England]; (Kützing 1849: 64-) Holotype: L; 940, 285 ... 306 (Womersley 1994: 61) Notes: Athanasiadis (1996:18) and Womersley (1994: 61) cite Torquay, Devon, England as the type locality of this species. Woelkerling (1972: 86) notes that although Kützing (1849: 640) cited the Bay of Naples as the type locality, Hamel (1927; 1928) has indicated that the type collection came from Torquay, England and is represented by specimen 454 in Hauck and Richter's "Phykotheca Universalis". The type specimen in the Kützing collections at L contains only plants collected by Naegeli in England (identical to those distributed in Hauck and Richter) and none from the Bay of Naples.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), microscopic (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 18 February 2002 by G.M. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 March 2017
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 March 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024
