Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh 1817

Current name: Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh
Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler and M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon: A Floristic Inventory and Field Guide. OffShore Graphics, Inc., Washington, DC, 298 pp. 584 distributed by Harbor BDiane Littler (littlerd@si.edu)

Publication Details
Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh 1817: xix (as 'floresia')

Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1817). Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]-xl, [1]-135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana.

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Publication date: Mai-Dec 1817 (p. vii: i Mai 1817)

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

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

Basionym
Fucus floresii Clemente

Type Information
Type locality: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Spain; (Silva & al. 1996: 198) Type: Rojas Clemente y Rubio; MA; MA-Algae 1832 (Rodríguez-Prieto & al. 2018: 522) Notes: Collector: Don Francisco Flores (INA)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 August 2021

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Nomenclatural note
The protologue for the basionym includes "D. Francisco Flores hanc speciem dicare volui, fucorum Luciferifani indagatori diligentissimo acutissimoque." Thus the species is named to honour this person and the epithet should accordingly be "floresii" not "floresia" as commonly in the literature (Guiry, Schneider and Wynne, e-mail communications May 2002). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic note
Using COI-5P barcoding, Schneider et al. (2010) found that Bermuda specimens previously attributable to Halymenia floresii were part of a morphologically variable species with a type locality in the islands, H. pseudofloresii Collins et M. Howe. Because narrow specimens from Bermuda were morphologically identical to European specimens of its sister taxon, the generitype H. floresii, yet distinct molecularly, Schneider et al. (2010) questioned all collections of the latter species from the western Atlantic until they are confirmed by molecular comparisons with eastern Atlantic isolates. - (18 May 2010) - M.D. Guiry

Distributional note
Brazil ? (Azevedo et al., 2016). - (12 August 2016) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 August 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 April 2025