Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen 1932
Current name:
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen
1, 4. Habit, low intertidal (My Hoa, Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam). 2. Surface view of cell with connecting hapteroid cells. 3. Surface view of hapteroid cells. - 29 February 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)
Publication Details
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forsskål) Børgesen 1932: 2, pl. 1: fig. 1
Published in: Børgesen, F. (1932). A revision of Forsskål's algae mentioned in Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica and found in his herbarium in the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 8(2): 1-14, 4 figs, 1 plate.
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This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Dictyosphaeria.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Ulva cavernosa Forsskål
Type Information
Type locality: No locality cited; (Forsskål 1775: 187) Syntypes [southern Red Sea: Al Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia; Al Mukha, Yemen]: Forsskål; C; (Børgesen 1932: 2, pl. 1: fig. 1) Notes: No locality was listed by Forsskål in the publication. Børgesen (1932: 2) reported "Several well preserved specimens are present [collected by Forsskål]. "Ad Gamfodae & Mochhae littora." [Al Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia; Al Mukha, Yemen]
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 08 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 10 March 2023
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
