Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville 1830

Current name: Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville
microscope, female gametengia, Ría de Arousa, 2011 - 24 October 2011. Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville 1830: xliv, 60, pl. 10

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 Cutleria.

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

Basionym
Ulva multifida Turner

Type Information
Type locality: Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; (Silva & al. 1996: 616) Type: Turner; (INA 1996)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), cleft into many parts (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 February 2020

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Nomenclatural notes
See Wynne (2003) regarding the history of the name Ulva multifida and the correct citation of the binomial Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville, which is usually cited as Cutleria multifida (J.E. Smith) Greville (e.g., Silva, Basson & Moe (1996: 616)). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
Taskin et al. (2008:62) cite (Smith) Greville as the authority. - (22 May 2008) - G.M. Guiry
Cutleria multifida (Sm.) Greville [Kornmann & Sahling,1994]. - (27 November 2019) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Collected in maërl beds and gravel, more abundant on dead shells, occasionally on living and dead maërl and pebbles; depth range; 1-18 m (Peña & Bárbara 2010). - (04 May 2010) - G.M. Guiry