Hypnea cornuta (Kützing) J.Agardh 1851

Publication Details
Hypnea cornuta (Kützing) J.Agardh 1851: 449

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 1. pp. 337 [bis]-351 [bis] 352-506. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.

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Publication date: Jan-Jun

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Hypnea is Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Chondroclonium cornutum Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "ad oras Guineae" fide J. Agardh (1851: 449) [stated by Kützing to be unknown]; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 21) Type: Herb. Lenormand, PC; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 21) Notes: "Locus natalis ignotus" (Silva et al. 1996: 296). "Ad oras Guineae" according to J. Agardh (1851: 449). According to South (2004: 137), the type locality is Guinea Coast, Atlantic Ocean. Lewmanomont (1997: 180) notes that in Kützing (1849), the type citation (Gigartina cornutum Kützing) is "Gigartina cornuta Lamour-Locus natalis ignotus (v.s. in herb. Lenormand)." This specimen (in Lenormand's or Kützing's herbarium) is to be regarded as the lectotype of C. cornutum, later transferred to H. cornuta (Kützing) J. Agardh (1852).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), horned.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 08 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 March 2021

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Nomenclatural note
Chiang Y.M. (1997: 170) cites the authority for this species as (Lamouroux) J. Agardh 1852. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
This species has been introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 145), by shipping, oyster cultivation and via the Suez Canal, being first found at Rhodes Island in 1894. It is now widely distributed in the eastern Mediterranean. - (04 November 2015) - M.D. Guiry

Habitat note
Widespread in warm seas; intertidal; on rock flat ca. 20 cm below low water, in Chondrophycus papillosus community; on rock flat ca. 1 m below low water, in Caulerpa racemosa community (with parasitic Hypneocolax (Lipkin & Silva 2002). - (03 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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