Leptophyllis conferta (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh 1876
Current name:
Leptophyllis conferta (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh
Harvey, W.H. (1847). 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
Leptophyllis conferta (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh 1876: 676
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 (holotype) of the genus Leptophyllis.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus confertus R.Brown ex Turner
Type Information
Type locality: "At Kent's Islands, near New Holland. Mr. Brown" [Kent Group, Tasmania]; (Turner 1809-1811: 116) Holotype: Robert Brown; BM; (Womersley 1996: 349)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), dense (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 20 October 2000 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 13 May 2009
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 May 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 15 March 2025
