Fucus verticillatus Lightfoot 1777
Current name:
Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding
Chylocladia verticillata; Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland
2#62 - 03 April 2011. M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Fucus verticillatus Lightfoot 1777: 692, pl. 31
Published in: Lightfoot, J. (1777). Flora scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides. Vol. II. pp. 545-1151 [1-24], pls 1-35. London: printed for B. White at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street.
Request PDFPublication date: October 1777
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 Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding.
Source of Synonymy
Bliding, C. (1928). Studien über die Florideenordnung Rhodymeniales. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift Ny Följd, Andra Afdelingen 24(3): 1-73.
Type Information
Type locality: Jura, Argyll, Scotland; (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 81) Lectotype: BM-K; (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 81)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), verticillate, whorled (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 25 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 16 November 2022
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 November 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
