Conferva foetida Villars 1789
Current name:
Hydrurus foetidus (Villars) Trevisan
Red-cyan 3D anaglyph. Young growth on Paralemania, collected by Lydia King, River Dreisam, Germany. - 06 May 2016. C.F.Carter(chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com
Publication Details
Conferva foetida Villars 1789: 1010, pl. LV (pro parte). Cites pl. LVI in text
Published in: Villars, D. (1789). Histoire des plantes de Dauphiné. Contenant une Préface historique; un dictionnaire des termes de Botanique; les classes, les familles, les genres, & les herborisations des environs de Grenoble, de la Grande Chartreuse, de Briançon, de Gap & de Montélimar. Vol. 3. pp. [Part 2] 581-1091, I-VI, VI[bis], VII-XIII, XIII[bis], XIV-XV, XIX-LI, LIII-LV. A Grenoble: chez l'Auteur & chez les Libraires, Lyon, chez les frères Perisses, & chez Piestre & de La Molière, Paris, chez Prevost.
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Conferva is Conferva rupestris Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Hydrurus foetidus (Villars) Trevisan.
Source of Synonymy
Trevisan, V.B.A. (1845). Nomenclator algarum, ou collection des noms imposées aux plantes de la famille des algues. pp. 1-80. Padoue [Padua]: Imprimerie du Seminaire.
Type Information
Type locality: Dauphiné, France [a former province in southeastern France, the extent of which approximated to that of the present départments of Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes]; (Villars 1789: title)
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 10 May 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.
Last updated: 24 October 2022
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 October 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024