Placophora binderi (J.Agardh) J.Agardh 1863

Publication Details
Placophora binderi (J.Agardh) J.Agardh 1863: 1138-1139

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
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Placophora.

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

Basionym
Amansia binderi J.Agardh

Type Information
Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; (Silva & al. 1996: 535) Holotype: LD, Herb. Agardh; 42945 (Womersley 2003: 361)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Womersley (2003: 361) notes that this is most commonly epiphytic on Codium, but that Scagel (1953: 25) records it as epiphytic on several other firm-surfaced algae in South Africa.

Created: 01 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 December 2017

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Nomenclatural note
John et al. (2004) inocrrectly give the epithet as "binderiae". - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 December 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025

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