Eucheuma amakusaense Okamura 1902
Publication Details
Eucheuma amakusaense Okamura 1902: 34 (as 'amakusaensis')
Published in: Okamura, K. (1902). Nippon Sorui-meii [Book listing Japanese Algae]. pp. i-vi, 1-276. Tokyo: Keigyosha. [in Japanese]
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Eucheuma is Eucheuma spinosum J.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Mimica amakusaensis (Okamura) Santiañez & M.J.Wynne.
Source of Synonymy
Santiañez, W.J.E. & Wynne, M.J. (2020). Establishment of Mimica gen. nov. to accommodate the anaxiferous species of the economically important red seaweed Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phytotaxa 439(2): 167-170, no figs.
Type Information
Type locality: JAPAN. Kumamoto Prefecture: Ushibuka, Amakusa Island; (Yoshida 1992: 235) Lectotype: SAP; herb. Okamura (Yoshida 1992: 235) Notes: Yoshida (1992: 235) notes that several specimens in the Okamura herbarium are now deposited in SAP. Only one collection of several plants from Ushibuka, Amakusa Island, Kumamoto Prefecture, seems to have been examined by Okamura when the name was published. One of them must be chosen as the lectotype. Because the original materials are present, there is no need for neotypification. Doty (1988:185) cites as neotype, Doty voucher No. 31613 (BISH: No 508860), collected and forwarded by Iwao Shinmura, but he notes that, in accordance with Segawa (1957), it may be that Collection No. 19766 in the herbarium of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Univ., will prove appropriate as a lectotype.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 28 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 16 April 2020
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 April 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 December 2024
