Aneurianna ogasawaraensis T.Kitayama 2014
Publication Details
Aneurianna ogasawaraensis T.Kitayama 2014: 134, figs 1-11
Published in: Kitayama, T. (2014). Morphology of Aneurianna ogasawaraensis sp. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta), a new marine deep sublittoral red alga from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural science, Series B 40(4): 133-138.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Aneurianna is Aneurianna lorentzii (Weber Bosse) L.E.Phillips.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "Off Hahajima Island, Ogasawara Islands, Japan"; (Kitayama 2014: 134) Holotype: TNS; AL 188560 (Kitayama 2014: 134)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Thalli with erect thalli, up to
10 cm in height, stipitate, attached to solid substratum
by a discoid holdfast, pink to red in
colour. Stipes short, terete, occasionally
branched. Blades flattened, orbicular to elliptical,
dorsiventral, up to 3.5 cm in width, rounded at
the base, with single midribs; apices loosely
incurved; margines dentate with triangular
spines; surface pattern irregular elliptic. Medullae
composed of irregularly ordered cells under a
single-layered cortex; a central-axial cell with
five pericentral cells and a few pseudopericentral
cells present. Reproductive organs unknown.
Created: 04 March 2015 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 04 March 2015
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 04 March 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 09 September 2024