Polysiphonia scopulorum Harvey 1855
Publication Details
Polysiphonia scopulorum Harvey 1855: 540
Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1855). Some account of the marine botany of the colony of western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 525-566.
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The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Bryocladia scopulorum (Harvey) Díaz-Tapia.
Source of Synonymy
Díaz-Tapia, P. & Verbruggen, H. (2023 '2024'). Resolving the taxonomy of the Polysiphonia scopulorum complex and the Bryocladia lineage (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 60(1): 49–72, 13 figures.
Type Information
Type locality: Rottnest Island, Western Australia; (Huisman, Kim & Kim 2017: 55) Holotype: W.H. Harvey; TCD; Travelling Set no. 187 (Huisman, Kim & Kim 2017: 55) Notes: Isotypes in TCD (Trav. Set 187). Type locality: Fremantle, Western Australia (Schneider & Lane, 2007: 137). Molecular vouchers: GenBank accession numbers MF139308, MF139309, MF139310 [from Fays Bay, Rottnest I., Western Australia]. Lectotype: TCD (Harvey, Travelling Set no. 187 designated in Parnell et al., 2010; Isolectotypes: BM 001067671, MEL 517744; Epitype: PD1655, MELUA 132369a, collected from Parakeet Beach, Rottnest Island on 17.iii.2015, by Pilar Díaz-Tapia & Joana F. Costa (Díaz-Tapia & Verbruggen, 2024
Origin of Species Name
Noun (plural possessive) (Latin), of the (sharp) rocks, of cliffs, (Brown 1954).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Habitat
Occurs mainly on rough-water rock platforms or in relatively calm localities, usually lower eulittoral, occasionally sublittoral on older axes of Scaberia (Womersley 2003: 177).
Created: 04 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 11 June 2024
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 June 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 November 2024
