Chromastrum microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Papenfuss 1945
Current name:
Acrochaetium microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Nägeli
Hawaii; scale 20 µm - 12 August 2011. J.M. Huisman
Publication Details
Chromastrum microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Papenfuss 1945: 322
Published in: Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chromastrum is Chromastrum virgatulum (Harvey) Papenfuss.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Acrochaetium microscopicum (Nägeli ex Kützing) Nägeli.
Source of Synonymy
Nägeli, C. & Cramer, C. (1858). Die Stärkekörner: Morphologische, physiologische, chemisch-physicalische und systematisch-botanische Monographie. Pflanzenphysiologische Untersuchungen. 2. Heft. pp. [i]-x, [1]-623, pls XI-XXVI. Zürich: bei Fredrich Schultness.
Basionym
Callithamnion microscopicum Nägeli ex Kützing
Type Information
Type locality: "Golfo di Napoli, Italy" [Holotype from Torquay, England]; (Kützing 1849: 64-) Holotype: L; 940, 285 ... 306 (Womersley 1994: 61) Notes: Athanasiadis (1996:18) and Womersley (1994: 61) cite Torquay, Devon, England as the type locality of this species. Woelkerling (1972: 86) notes that although Kützing (1849: 640) cited the Bay of Naples as the type locality, Hamel (1927; 1928) has indicated that the type collection came from Torquay, England and is represented by specimen 454 in Hauck and Richter's "Phykotheca Universalis". The type specimen in the Kützing collections at L contains only plants collected by Naegeli in England (identical to those distributed in Hauck and Richter) and none from the Bay of Naples.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), microscopic (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 30 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 March 2017
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 March 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 November 2024
