Penicillus phoenix (J.Ellis & Solander) Lamarck 1813

Publication Details
Penicillus phoenix (J.Ellis & Solander) Lamarck 1813: 299

Published in: Lamarck, [J.B.P.A.] de (1813). Sur les polypiers empâtés. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 294-312, 370-386, 432-458.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Penicillus is Penicillus capitatus Lamarck.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Rhipocephalus phoenix (J.Ellis & Solander) Kützing.

Source of Synonymy
Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

Basionym
Corallina phoenix J.Ellis & Solander

Type Information
Type locality: "... found on the coast of the Bahama Islands."; (Ellis & Solander 1786: 126) Lectotype (Ellis and Solander1786 pl. 25, fig. 2; designated by Gepp & Gepp 1905: 4): Notes: Gepp & Gepp (1905: 4) note "The type of Rhipocephalus Phoenix is not longer in existence, but there is a satisfactory figure of it in Ellis and Solander's Natural History of Zoophytes (1786), p. 126, tab. 25, fig. 2, under the name Corallina Phoenix. It has flabella of about 15 mm long.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 18 February 2006 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

Last updated: 22 June 2022

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