Rhipocephalus phoenix (J.Ellis & Solander) Kützing 1843

Publication Details
Rhipocephalus phoenix (J.Ellis & Solander) Kützing 1843: 311

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
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Rhipocephalus.

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

Basionym
Corallina phoenix J.Ellis & Solander

Type Information
Type locality: "... found on the coast of the Bahama Islands."; (Ellis & Solander 1786: 126) Lectotype (Ellis and Solander1786 pl. 25, fig. 2; designated by Gepp & Gepp 1905: 4): Notes: Gepp & Gepp (1905: 4) note "The type of Rhipocephalus Phoenix is not longer in existence, but there is a satisfactory figure of it in Ellis and Solander's Natural History of Zoophytes (1786), p. 126, tab. 25, fig. 2, under the name Corallina Phoenix. It has flabella of about 15 mm long.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 05 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 09 March 2023

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