Mychodea acicularis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gigartinales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Rhodophytina Classis: Florideophyceae Subclassis: Rhodymeniophycidae Ordo: Gigartinales

Familia: Mychodeaceae
Genus: Mychodea
Species: Mychodea acicularis

Name

Mychodea acicularis (J.Agardh) Kraft, 1978 (as 'aciculare')

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Cystoclonium aciculare J.Agardh, 1849
    • Type locality: "Hab. ad occidentales Novae Hollandiae oras." [New Holland: Australia]. Lectotype: LD herb. alg. Agardh 33993 (Kraft & Womersley 1994: 462). Notes: Kraft & Saunders (2017: 241): "Type: Ad litus mari inundatum penins. Levevre, Dec. 16 1847, F. Mueller s.n. (lecto, here designated: MEL0044483; isolecto: MEL5163780–82)." However, Kraft & Womersley's lectotype cannot be superseded.
• Homotypic
  • Acanthococcus acicularis (J.Agardh) J.Agardh, 1852
  • Mychodea muelleri Sonder, 1853
  • Gracilaria aculeolata Areschoug, 1854

References

• Kraft, G.T. 1978. Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). III. The Mychodeaceae and Mychodeophyllaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 26: 515–610, 46 figs. Reference page. : 555, figs 18, 19, 40
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2018. Mychodea acicularis. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 5 February 2017.