Dictyopteris divaricata (Okamura) Okamura 1932

Current name: Dictyopteris divaricata (Okamura) Okamura
1. Habit. 2, 3. Plants on rocks in low intertidal (Peter the Great Bay, Russia). - 09 March 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)

Publication Details
Dictyopteris divaricata (Okamura) Okamura 1932: 75

Published in: Okamura, K. (1932). The distribution of marine algae in Pacific waters. Records of Oceanographic Works in Japan 4: 30-150.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dictyopteris is Dictyopteris polypodioides (De Candolle) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Haliseris divaricata Okamura

Type Information
Syntype localities: Cape Iwai, (Kesen'numa-wan, Miyagi Prefecture) and Hakodate, Japan; (Silva & al. 1996: 582) Type material: SAP; herb. Okamura (Yoshida 1998) Notes: "According to the holotype in SAP herb. Okamura and Yoshida (1998), the type locality is Shirisawabe, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan (current name is Sumiyoshi, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan)." [Masahiro Suzuki pers. comm. July 2024).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), divaricate, spreading at a wide angle (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 04 March 2021

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Nomenclatural note
Name also introduced by Nagai (1940: 42). - (04 August 2017) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 04 March 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025