Chnoospora implexa J.Agardh 1848

Current name: Pseudochnoospora implexa (J.Agardh) Santiañez, G.Y.Cho & Kogame
Heron Island, QueenslandJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Chnoospora implexa J.Agardh 1848: 172

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1848). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen Primum. Algas fucoideas complectens. pp. [i-vi], [i]-viii, [1]-363. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Chnoospora is Chnoospora pacifica J.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Pseudochnoospora implexa (J.Agardh) Santiañez, G.Y.Cho & Kogame.

Source of Synonymy
Santiañez, W.J.E., Macaya, E.C., Lee, K.M., Cho, G.Y., Boo, S.M. & Kogame, K. (2018). Taxonomic reassessment of the Indo-Pacific Scytosiphonaceae (Phaeophyceae): Hydroclathrus rapanuii sp. nov. and Chnoospora minima from Easter Island, with proposal of Dactylosiphon gen. nov. and Pseudochnoospora gen. nov. Botanica Marina 61(1): 47-64.

Type Information
Type locality: Hab. in mari rubro prope El Tor [near Tor, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt]; (Agardh 1848: 173) Holotype: W. Schimper; BM; BM000569565 (Santiañez & al. 2018: 59) Notes: Type: IT: UC409084; collector: W. Schimper, fide IT in UC; 25.iii.1835 (INA).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), entangled, entwined, interwoven, interlaced (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 14 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 31 March 2022

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Nomenclatural note
Børgesen (1941: 63) cites this species as Chnoospora implexa (Hering) J. Agardh. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 31 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 April 2025