Osmundea pinnatifida (Hudson) Stackhouse 1809
Current name:
Osmundea pinnatifida (Hudson) Stackhouse
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; sandy rocks at MLWN; fertile plants - 18 April 2002. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Osmundea pinnatifida (Hudson) Stackhouse 1809: 79
Published in: Stackhouse, J. (1809). Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Osmundea is Osmundea expansa Stackhouse.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus pinnatifidus Hudson
Type Information
Type locality: Harwich, Essex, England; (Silva & al. 1996: 534) Notes: This type locality was first recorded by Maggs & Hommersand (1993: 403, footnote). UK: England: Deal; collector: Mr. Dandridge (INA).
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), pinnately cleft (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 10 February 2018
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Distributional note
Most Mediterranean records of this species (either as Osmundea pinnatifida and Laurencia pinnatifida) must be referred to Osmundea truncata (Nam, Maggs, McIvor & Stanhope, 2000). The only confirmed record of O. pinnatifida in the Mediterranean Sea is by Boisset et al. (1995) for the Alboran Sea (Furnari et al., 1999). "Early records from Ghana and São Tomé (as Laurencia pinnatifida) should be almost certainly discounted since the material upon which they are based most probably relates to the tropical Laurencia brongniartii." (John et al., 2004).
A tropical record of this species (Papua New Guinea, Littler & Littler, 2003) is a misapplied name for Chondria ryukyuensis Yamada, which also occurs in nearby Solomon Islands (N'Yeurt & Payri, unpub. data).
- (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 February 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 April 2025
