Halurus Kützing, 1843

Holotype species: Halurus equisetifolius (Lightfoot) Kützing

Original publication and holotype designation: 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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Description: Thallus to 15 cm, laterally branched; axes of elongate multinucleate cells each bearing a whorl of curved di-, tri- or subdichotomously branched determinate branchlets, lower axes rhizoidally corticated. Procarps on short fertile branches at apex of lateral axes. Carpogonial branches 4-celled, auxiliary cell cut off from supporting cell incorporated into fusion cell bearing apical gonimolobes producing globose carposporangia surrounded by involucre of curved branchlets. Spermatangia in heads, adaxial on branchlets. Tetrasporangia on cells of branchlets, tetrahedrally divided.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-11-24 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.

Comments: Known from southern and western coasts of England, France and the Mediterranean. Also recorded from Argentina.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 November 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 November 2024