Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse 1809
Current name:
Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse
habit with Pseudopolyides furcellarioides and Polyides rotundus, Costa da Morte, Galicia, Spain, 2009Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)
Publication Details
Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse 1809: 74
Published in: Stackhouse, J. (1809). Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
Request PDFType Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Gigartina.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus pistillatus S.G.Gmelin
Type Information
Type locality: Doubtful; sent by Sandifort from the Netherlands (The Hague); (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 239) Lectotype: original illustration in the absence of material (S.G. Gmelin, 1768, pl. xviii, fig. 1) (epitype) (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 239) Notes: Only known from drift plants (Stegenga et al. 1997).
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), pistillate (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 06 February 2017
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024
