Vanvoorstia incipiens De Clerck, M.J.Wynne & Coppejans 1999
Publication Details
Vanvoorstia incipiens De Clerck, M.J.Wynne & Coppejans 1999: 394, figs 1-27
Published in: De Clerck, O., Wynne, M.J. & Coppejans, E. (1999). Vanvoorstia incipiens sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Tanzania, East Africa. Phycologia 38: 394-400, 27 figs, 1 table.
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The type species (holotype) of the genus Vanvoorstia is Vanvoorstia spectabilis Harvey.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 01 August 2000 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 12 March 2014
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Conservational note
According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species "Eric Coppejans (pers. comm.) indicates that there is a new species he described from East Africa which is probably Critically Endangered: Vanvoorstia incipiens De Clerck, Wynne & Coppejans (Phycologia 38 (1999): 394-400). This newly described species occurs massively in a single (rather small) bay along the east coast of Zanzibar, at about low tide level (large amounts drifting or entangled to other seaweeds in intertidal pools). Coppejans carried out over 200 collecting excursions along the Kenyan, Tanzanian (incl. Zanzibar) coast and NEVER found a single specimen anywhere else than the type locality, where we find it again year after year. It doesn't occur in the neighbouring bays, which look 'identical' to this one! If that bay would be disturbed (harbour, oil pollution, etc.) the only known (type) locality would disappear and we would have a similar story there within the same genus!! Apparently some representatives do not succeed in colonizing larger areas!" - (23 August 2007) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 12 March 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 March 2025
