Leathesia

Leathesia marina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ectocarpales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Chromista Subregnum: Harosa Infraregnum: Heterokonta Phylum: Ochrophyta Subphylum: Phaeista Infraphylum: Limnista Superclassis: Fucistia Classis: Phaeophyceae Subclassis: Fucophycidae Ordo: Ectocarpales

Familia: Chordariaceae
Genus: Leathesia

Species: L. baltica – L. cervicornis – L. crassipilosa – L. difformioides – L. globosa – L. intermedia – L. marina – L. monilicellulata – L. mucosa – L. novae-zelandiae – L. primaria – L. sadoensis – L. saxicola – L. yezoensis

Name

Leathesia S.F.Gray, 1821

• Type species: Leathesia tuberiformis S.F.Gray = Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne

Synonyms

• Clavatella Bory, 1823
  • Type species: Clavatella nostoc-marina Bory
• Corynephora C.Agardh, 1824
  • Type species: Corynephora marina (C.Agardh) C.Agardh

References

• Gray, S.F. 1821. A natural arrangement of British plants, according to their relations to each other, as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. including those cultivated for use; with an introduction to botany, in which the terms newly introduced are explained; illustrated by figures. 1: i–xxviii, 1–824, pls. I–XXI. BHL Reference page. : 279, 301.
• Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de 2014. An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie, Algologie 35(2): 117–156. DOI: 10.7872/crya.v35.iss2.2014.117 Reference page. 
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Leathesia. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 27 April 2017.
• Leathesia in the World Register of Marine Species

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