Nemastoma laciniatum J.Agardh 1876

Publication Details
Nemastoma laciniatum J.Agardh 1876: 128

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.

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Publication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Nemastoma is Nemastoma dichotomum J.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Tsengia laciniata (J.Agardh) D'Archino & Zuccarello.

Source of Synonymy
D'Archino, R. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2020). Foliose species of New Zealand red algae: diversity in the genus Tsengia (Tsengiaceae, Halymeniales), including T. northlandica sp. nov.. Phycologia 59(5): 437-448.

Type Information
Type locality: Banks Peninsula, New Zealand; (Kylin 1932: 7) Holotype: LD; (Kylin 1932: 7) Notes: See Kylin (1932, 7, pl. 2: fig. 3) for original material. Type locality: New Zealand: Otago: Dunedin; collector: Berggren; LD (INA and D'Archino & Zuccarello, 2020).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), slashed into narrow divisions with tapering, pointed incisions (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 16 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 07 October 2020

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