Coeloclonium opuntioides (Harvey) J.Agardh 1876
Publication Details
Coeloclonium opuntioides (Harvey) J.Agardh 1876: 640-641
Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.
Request PDFPublication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]
Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Coeloclonium.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Coeloclonium tasmanicum (Harvey) Womersley.
Source of Synonymy
Womersley, H.B.S. (2003). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. [1]-533, 226 figs, 2 pls. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.
Basionym
Chylocladia opuntioides Harvey
Type Information
Syntype localities: Various in Western Australia; (Silva & al. 1996: 486)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), resembling the genus Opuntia.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 29 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 13 February 2009
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 February 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2025
