Bostrychia moritziana (Sonder ex Kützing) J.Agardh 1863

Publication Details
Bostrychia moritziana (Sonder ex Kützing) J.Agardh 1863: 862

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1863). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 3. pp. 787-1138, 1158-1291. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup. [in Latin]

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Bostrychia is Bostrychia scorpioides (Hudson) Montagne.

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

Basionym
Polysiphonia moritziana Sonder ex Kützing

Type Information
Syntype localities: "Ad Antillas: Moritz; Cayenne: Leprieur. Spec. dederunt cll. Sonder ey Lenormand (No. 255)." [Antilles, West Indies; Cayenne, French Guiana]; (Kützing 1849: 838) Type: Moritz; Leprieur "Spec. ded. Sonder er Lenormand (no. 255); (INA 1996) Notes: According to Womersley (2003: 366), the type material (Polysiphonia? moritziana Sonder ex Kützing 1849: 838) is from Venezuela, St Lucia and French Guiana: lectotype from Cumana, Venezuela (Moritz 142), in MEL 672271. However, Venezuela is not mentioned in the protologue, and the type is more likely to be the Leprieur specimen from the Antilles in L. Womersley's selection of a Venezuelan lectotype specimen in MEL is strange.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Occurs in calm, sheltered, localities, often under fresh-water influence (Womersley 2003: 367).

Created: 27 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 March 2024

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Distributional note
Asia: Japan; Australasia: Australia; North America: Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago; South America: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela (Necchi & Vis 2022: 82). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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