Wittrockiella salina V.J.Chapman 1949

Publication Details
Wittrockiella salina V.J.Chapman 1949: 495, fig. 1

Published in: Chapman, V.J. (1949). Some new species and forms of marine algae from New Zealand. Farlowia 3: 495-498, 5 figs.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Wittrockiella is Wittrockiella paradoxa Wille.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: Stanmore Bay (near Auckland), New Zealand; (Womersley 1984: 213) Notes: According to Womersley (1984: 213) the type was not located in AK. According to Hoek et al. (1984: 41 fide Dr. A.E. Wright), the type of this species is neither present in AK nor in the Univ. of Auckland herbarium. They propose to nominate as a neotype a specimen from Uriti, Russell, New Zealand, collected by V.W. Lindauer (6 December 1948), and distributed as No. 331 in the 'Algae Nova-Zelandicae Exsiccatae', and which is preserved in ADU (A17848); isoneotypes: herb of Univ. of Auckland; L. Neotype collected from sunnny side of a culvert, with a small muddy stream, growing near high water mark.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latin), saline (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a freshwatermarine species.

Created: 11 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 March 2018

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 March 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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