Callophyllis laciniata (Hudson) Kützing 1843

Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall

Current name: Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall
FInavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; drift plan on Mytilus; to 450 mm - 14 April 2006. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)

Publication Details
Callophyllis laciniata (Hudson) Kützing 1843: 401

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 14-16 Sep 1843

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Callophyllis is Callophyllis variegata (Bory) Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall.

Basionym
Fucus laciniatus Hudson

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), slashed into narrow divisions with tapering, pointed incisions (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Thick, flattened, subcartilaginous, ± palmate, deep crimson fronds, to 200 mm high, with short wedge-shaped stipe from small discoid base. Frond ± deeply cleft into wedge-shaped segments, themselves divided subdichotomously, apices rounded, margins smooth or fringed with minute proliferations.

Habitat
On rock or Laminaria hyperborea holdfasts, shady pools of lower intertidal or subtidal, common, widely distributed.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 February 2020

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 February 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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