Lophothalia verticillata (Harvey) Kützing 1849
Current name:
Lophothalia verticillata (Harvey) Kützing
Harvey, W.H. (1847). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r
Publication Details
Lophothalia verticillata (Harvey) Kützing 1849: 797
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
Request PDFPublication date: 23-24 July 1849
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Lophothalia.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Dasya verticillata Harvey
Type Information
Type locality: "George Town, V. D. L., R. Gunn, Esq., n. 1306" [Georgetown, Tasmania]; (Harvey 1844: 434) Holotype: R.C. Gunn 1306; TCD; (Womersley 1998: 478)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), verticillate, whorled (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 30 September 2003 by G.M. Guiry.
Last updated: 07 October 2010
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
