Desmarestia herbacea (Turner) J.V.Lamouroux 1813

Publication Details
Desmarestia herbacea (Turner) J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 45

Published in: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.

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Publication date: 1813

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Desmarestia is Desmarestia aculeata (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Fucus herbaceus Turner

Type Information
Type locality: USA: "on the North-west coast of America"; (INA 1996) Type: Archibald Menzies; (INA 1996) Notes: Type: BM 000562739; fig. 19 in Anderson 1985 (Yang et al. 2014: 162).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), herbaceous, not woody.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 December 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 04 June 2014

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Nomenclatural note
M.J. Wynne points out (e-mail, August 2006): "Turner, who based his material on a collection made by Menzies on the northwest coast of America, is often thought to have made an illegitimate name because of Hudson's (1778) Fucus herbaceus, described from Hastings in Sussex. MICH Library has that Hudson work (1778), and I can confirm what Paul Silva's INA card states, that Fucus herbaceus Huds. is on page 582, BUT on page 662, Hudson placed his own [unpublished] name in synonymy with Fucus ligulatus Lightfoot (1777). Silva's INA card stares that F. herbaceus Hudson was "not validly published". So that would mean that Turner's name F. herbaceus was not an illegitimate name after all, that the authorship of Demarestia herbacea is (Turner) J.V. Lamouroux. Lamouroux did base it on the Pacific North American specimen of Turner (a Menzies collection), not a European specimen." - (15 August 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic note
Included in synonymy with Desmarestia ligulata by Abbott & Hollenberg (1979: 222), but, according to Silva (1979: 336), "...the argument offered in support of this treatment is not convincing..." - (16 August 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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