Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harvey 1833

Publication Details
Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harvey 1833: 337

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1833). Div. I. Inarticulatae. Div. II. Confervoideae; Div. III. Gloiocladeae. In: The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Vol. V. (or Vol. II of Dr. Hooker's British flora). Part I. Comprising the Mosses, Hepaticae, Lichens, Characeae and Algae. (Hooker, W.J. Eds), pp. 259-262, 264-401. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Paternoster-Row.

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

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

Basionym
Fucus filamentosus Wulfen

Type Information
Type locality: "Supra submarina Adriatici corpora." [Adriatic Sea]; (Wulfen 1803: 64) Type: Vienna?; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 136)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), filamentous (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 11 January 2023

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Nomenclatural note
Womersley (1998: 372) cites Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harvey 1833: 36. - (12 January 2009) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
John et al. (2004) note that “Steentoft (1967) has discounted earlier reports of S. filamentosa from offshore islands in the Gulf of Guinea believing them to be misdeterminations of S. aculeata (now S. hypnoides). See Woelkerling et al. (1998).” - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Widespread in warm and temperate seas; dominating epiphytic algal community of the lowest parts of Avicennia marina pneumatophores on Sinai coasts but absent from lower parts of the pneumatophores in Dahlak Archipelago, probably due to lack of wave action (Lipkin & Silva 2002). Epilithic on pebbles and bedrock, epiphytic on maerl and other algae, in silty or sandy habitats from near extreme low water to 13 m depth, at moderately to extremely wave-sheltered sites exposed to slight to strong currents (Maggs & Hommersand 1993). - (08 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 January 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025

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