Chondria coerulescens (J.Agardh) Sauvageau 1897

Current name: Chondria coerulescens (J.Agardh) Sauvageau
lower intertidal, South of Portugal, 2010 - 09 December 2011. Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Chondria coerulescens (J.Agardh) Sauvageau 1897: 204

Published in: Sauvageau, C. (1897). Note préliminaire sur les algues marines du golfe de Gascogne. Journal de Botanique, Morot 11: 166-179, 202-214, 252-257, 263-288, 301-311, 6 figs.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chondria is Chondria tenuissima (Withering) C.Agardh.

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

Basionym
Chondriopsis coerulescens J.Agardh

Type Information
Type locality: Brest, France; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 388) Lectotype: "Algues Marines du Finistère", no. 282 (Dixon 1962): Crouan; LD; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 388)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), becoming sky-blue (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 28 February 2017

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Nomenclatural note
Combination also proposed by Falkenberg (1901: 205). See INA. - (22 January 2015) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Distributional note
Reaching its northern limit on the south and south-east coasts of England (Maggs & Hommersand, 1993, p. 390). Magne (pers. comm. in South & Tittley 1986, p. 54) considered that the British records may be of another species. This species is said to thave been "probably imported with oysters for farming" into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 193), being first found in the Etang de Thau (France) in 1995. However, the species complex requires futher study as the species or a similar seems to be very wiespread in the Mediterranean. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Found on sand-covered rocks; low to mid intertidal; moderately to highly wave-exposed (Diaz-Tapi & Bárbara 2013). - (24 January 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 April 2025