Conferva vagabunda Linnaeus 1753

Publication Details
Conferva vagabunda Linnaeus 1753: 1167

Published in: Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol. 2 pp. [i], 561-1200, [1-30, index], [i, err.]. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Laurentii Salvii.

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Publication date: 1 May 1753

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Conferva is Conferva rupestris Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Cladophora vagabunda (Linnaeus) C.Hoek.

Source of Synonymy
Hoek, C. van den (1963). Revision of the European species of Cladophora. pp. [i]-vii, [1]-248, 1 fig., 18 maps, + 55 pls. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Type Information
Type locality: "In Mari Europaeo, libera vagatur in aquarum medio" [In the European Sea, free-floating freely in the middle of the waters]; (Linnaeus 1753: 1167) Lectotype [designated by Irvine in Spencer & al. 2009: 245: illustration in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: t. 5, f. 32. 1742]: OXF; herb. Dillenius, the specimen corresponding with descriptio A. (Spencer & al. 2009: 245) Notes: Spencer & al. (2009: 245) note: "Turner (1804: 107) and Druce & Vines (1907: 189) respectively determined the Herb. Dillenius material as C. vagabunda and Cladophora fracta (O.F. Müll. ex Vahl) Kütz. Van den Hoek (1963: 19, 144) mistakenly (see Methods) cited the Herb. Dillenius material as the type of C. vagabunda ; this selection was later accepted by Burrows (1991: 174). There are two specimens in Herb. Dillenius determined by Van den Hoek (1963: 144). One, corresponding to descriptio A, is Cladophora vagabunda and the other, corresponding to descriptio B, is Cladophora sericea (Huds.) Kütz."

Origin of Species Name
(Latin), to wander (Dawes & Mathieson 2008)

General Environment
This is a brackish species.

Created: 27 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 March 2023

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