Cladophoropsis membranacea (Bang ex C.Agardh) Børgesen 1905

Current name: Cladophoropsis membranacea (Bang ex C.Agardh) Børgesen
Excicata identificada por W. R. Taylor. Foto: Yusimí Alfonso.

Publication Details
Cladophoropsis membranacea (Bang ex C.Agardh) Børgesen 1905: 289, legend to figs 8-13

Published in: Børgesen, F. (1905). Contributions à la connaissance du genre Siphonocladus Schmitz. Oversight Over Det Kgl Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlingar 3: 259-291, 13 figs.

Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Cladophoropsis.

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

Basionym
Conferva membranacea Bang ex C.Agardh

Type Information
Type locality: "Ad insulam S. Crucis" [St Croix, Virgin Islands]; (Agardh 1824: 120) Lectotype: unknown; LD; Herb. alg. Agardh7287 (Leliaert & Coppejans 2006: 664) Notes: Leliaert & Coppejans (2006: 664) note that St. Croix is indicated as type locality in the original prologue. Several specimens of this species from that locality are present in LD; one of these, labeled 'Conf. membranacea Hofm, Ins St. Crucis' from the Agardh herbarium, is indicated as lectotype.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), membranous (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 12 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 March 2023

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Nomenclatural note
Lawson & John (1987) and John et al. (2004) cite this species as Cladophoropsis membranacea (C. Agardh) Børgesen, 1925. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic note
van der Strate et al. (2002) concluded that C. membranacea consisted of three cryptic species. - (17 April 2012) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Widespread in warm seas. On rocks in the intertidal zone: in upper midlittoral, filled small pits in the lower part of the concave, eroded, fossil reef wall, shaded by the overhanging ledge, and in the upper part of rock flat; in deeper habitats, usually grew epiphytically, forming sparse growths on hosts (Lipkin & Silva 2002). Grows epilithically as cushions or mat-forming thalli, or loose-lying as Aegagropila-like clumps, in exposed or sheltered intertidal to shallow subtidal habitats (occasionally to 10 m depth) Leliaert & Coppejans (2006). - (17 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 03 April 2025