Coccophora langsdorfii (Turner) Greville 1830

Publication Details
Coccophora langsdorfii (Turner) Greville 1830: xxxiv

Published in: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.

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Publication date: Feb.-March 1830

Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Coccophora.

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

Basionym
Fucus langsdorfii Turner

Type Information
Type locality: "On the coast of Japan. Dr. Langsdorff."; (Turner 1809-1811: 76) Type: BM?;

Eponomy
Named for the collector, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (1774-1852) German physician and naturalist, of the University of Göttingen, who sailed with Estonian Admiral A.J. Krusentern on the first Russian circumnavigation of the world (1803-1806).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 15 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 31 March 2022

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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 08 January 2025

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