Fucus sertularioides S.G.Gmelin 1768
Current name:
Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.Howe
Culebra Bay, Papagayo Gulf, North Pacific of Costa Rica; subtidal. Aggressive spreading of C. sertularioides in Costa Rica is crowding out native flora and also overgrowing colonies of the coral Pocillopora spp, disminishing its growth - 28 October 2007. Cindy Fernández (cindyfdez@yahoo.com)
Publication Details
Fucus sertularioides S.G.Gmelin 1768: 151, pl. XV [15]: fig. 4
Published in: Gmelin, S.G. (1768). Historia fucorum. pp. [i-xii], [i]-239, [i]-6 expl. tab., 35 pls [1A, IB, IIA, IIB, III-XXXIII]. Petropoli [St. Petersburg]: Ex typographia Academiae scientiarum.
Request PDFPublication date: p. xii: i Mai 1768
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.Howe.
Source of Synonymy
Howe, M.A. (1905). Phycological studies - II. New Chlorophyceae, new Rhodophyceae and miscellaneous notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32: 563-586, pls 23-29.
Type Information
Type locality: "in coralliis americanis" [Tropical America]; (Silva & al. 1996: 843) Notes: Possibly tropical Atlantic America (Hodgson et al., 2004: 32). Tropical America (Lipkin & Silva, 2002)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 24 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 10 July 2016
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 July 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 11 December 2024
