Aiolocolax pulchellus Pocock 1956

Publication Details
Aiolocolax pulchellus Pocock 1956: 22-23, figs 3, 4, pls 2-4 (as 'pulchella')

Published in: Pocock, M.A. (1956). South African parasitic Florideae and their hosts. 3. Four minute parasitic Florideae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 167: 11-41, 6 figs, 6 plates.

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Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Aiolocolax.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Muizenberg, False Bay, Cape Province, South Africa; (Silva & al. 1996: 556)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), beautiful and little (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

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

Last updated: 30 March 2017

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Nomenclatural note
Silva et al. (1996: 556) treats Aiolocolax Pocock as masculine as Art. 62.2 of the ICBN specified that compound generic names take the gender of the last word in the compound. As kolac (Greek, flatterer) is masculine, Aiolocolax is also masculine even though it was treated as feminine when first described. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Parasitic. Usual host: Polysiphonia caespitosa; also found on P. atlanticum and P. devoniensis (Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara, 2013). - (23 January 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 March 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025

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