Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh 1820

Current name: Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh
Fragment of young plant (Qingdao, Yellow Sea, China). Insert: plantlet. - 09 March 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)

Publication Details
Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh 1820: 38

Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1820 '1821'). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum. Pars prima. pp. [i-iv], [1]-168. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.

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Publication date: probably Jan-April 1820

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.

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

Basionym
Fucus horneri Turner

Type Information
Type locality: "In the Straits of Corea"; (Turner 1807-1808: 34) Lectotype: Fig. 7 A: Dr. Horner; BM-K; (Yoshida 1983: 116)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

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

Last updated: 31 March 2022

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Taxonomic note
Heterotypic synonym: Sargassum subgenus Arthrophycus J. Agardh, 1889: 33 (Dixon et al., 2014: 19). - (18 March 2014) - 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 29 March 2025