Thysanocladia dorsifera (C.Agardh) Harvey 1849

Current name: Callophycus dorsiferus (C.Agardh) P.C.Silva
Harvey, W.H. (1849). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r

Publication Details
Thysanocladia dorsifera (C.Agardh) Harvey 1849: 90, pl. 35: figs. 1-8

Published in: Hooker, J.D. & Harvey, W.H. (1845). Algae antarcticae, being characters and descriptions of the hitherto unpublished species of algae, discovered in Lord Auckland's Group, Campbell's Island, Kerguelen's Land, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn and other southern circumpolar regions, during the voyage of H.M. discovery ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London Journal of Botany 4: 249-276, 293-298.

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Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Thysanocladia.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Callophycus dorsiferus (C.Agardh) P.C.Silva.

Source of Synonymy
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: [i]-xiv, 1-1259.

Basionym
Rhodomela dorsifera C.Agardh

Type Information
Type locality: "ad oras novae Hollandiae"; (Silva & al. 1996: 328) Holotype: PC, Herb. Agardh, LD (part); 25552 (Womersley 1994: 335) Notes: Part in Herb. Agardh, LD, 25552.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 26 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 15 July 2009

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