Boreolithon van-heurckii

Boreolithon van-heurckii (fig.T: 12, 13)

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Hapalidiaceae
Subfamilia: Austrolithoideae
Genus: Boreolithon
Species: Boreolithon van-heurckii

Name

Boreolithon van-heurckii (Heydrich) A.S.Harvey & Woelkerling, 1995

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Lithothamnion van-heurckii Heydrich, 1905
    • Type locality: "Jersey 1903 et 1904, Ste-Brelade, EP. sur Aglaosphenia attaché à un Halidrys. H. Y. H." [St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. Aglaosphenia is a genus of hydroids of the family Aglaopheniidae].
    • Lectotype: (designated by Chamberlain & Irvine 1994: 199): H. Van Heurck; 1903-02; AWH #s.n.; Isolectotypes: TRH, PC.
• Homotypic
  • Epilithon vanheurckii (Heydrich) Heydrich, 1905
  • Melobesia van-heurckii (Heydrich) De Toni, 1924

References

• Harvey, A.S. & Woelkerling, W.J. 1995. An account of Austrolithon intumescens gen. et. sp. nov. and Boreolithon van-heurckii (Heydrich) gen. et. comb. nov. (Austrolithoideae subfam. nov., Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 34: 362–382. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-34-5-362.1 Reference page. : 374, figs 42, 46–50
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Boreolithon van-heurckii. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2017-08-19.

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