Amphiroa peruana

Amphiroa peruana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Corallinales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Rhodophytina Classis: Florideophyceae Subclassis: Corallinophycidae Ordo: Corallinales

Familia: Corallinaceae
Subfamilia: Lithophylloideae
Genus: Amphiroa
Species: Amphiroa peruana

Name

Amphiroa peruana J.E.Areschoug ex W.R.Taylor, 1945

• in Areschoug Phyc. Extraeur. Exsicc. No. 41, nom. inval. (no description). Inadvertently validated by Taylor.

• Type locality: Black Beach Archipelago, Isla Santa María, Archipiélago de Colón [Galapagos], Ecuador; Lower littoral, occasionally in large colonies.
• Lectotype: W.R. Taylor #34-231; 1934-01-17. MICH 675214 (Wynne 2019: 28). Isotypes: MICH 675076, 675215.

References

• Taylor, W.R. 1945. Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 12: i–iv, 1–528, 3 figs, 100 pls. Online BHL Hathitrust Reference page. : 190, pl. 50
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. Amphiroa peruana. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2019-12-02.

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