Aegagropila brownii

Aegagropila brownii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cladophorales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Ulvophyceae Ordo: Cladophorales

Familia: Pithophoraceae
Genus: Aegagropila
Species: Aegagropila brownii

Name

Aegagropila brownii (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1854: 13, pl. 62: fig. II: B, c, d

• Type locality: "On Wet Rocks in a Cave near Dunrea, Ireland. Mr. Robert Brown." [Probably near Fort Dunree [sic], Co. Donegal, Ireland].
• Type: "Fragments of type in herb. Agardh (LD), n. 8527."

Synonyms

• Basionym
• Conferva brownii Dillwyn, 1809: 58, suppl. pl. D
• Homotypic
• Cladophora brownii (Dillwyn) Harvey, 1846: pl. XXX

References

• Kützing, F.T. 1854. Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. IV. pp. i–xvi, 1–23, 100 pls. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers (in Commission bei W. Köhne). BHL Reference page. 
• Dillwyn, L.W. 1809. British Confervae; or colored figures and descriptions of the British plants referred by botanists to the genus Conferva. pp. 1–87, 1–6 (Index and Errata), pls. 69, 100–109, A–G (with text). London: W. Phillips. BHL Reference page. 
• Harvey, W.H. 1846. Phycologia britannica, or, a history of British sea-weeds: containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. Text with plates, pls I–LXXVIII. London: Reeve & Benham. BHL Reference page. 

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