Hydrolithon braganum

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Corallinaceae
Subfamilia: Hydrolithoideae
Genus: Hydrolithon
Species: Hydrolithon braganum

Name

Hydrolithon braganum W.J.Woelkerling, D.Bassi & Y.Iryu, 2012

• Type locality: 17º45.9553'S, 149º33.0515'W; south and west of Papara Tahiti, French Polynesia. Holotype: two conceptacle-bearing individuals and some nonfertile, fragmentary individuals: water depth at hole M0007A: 44.45 m; depth from seafloor down to a sample horizon: 44 m; total depth 88,85 m. Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan slide 7A 31R 2 0.0257.

References

• Woelkerling, W.J., Bassi, D. & Iryu, Y. 2012. Hydrolithon braganum sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta), the first known exclusively fossil semi-endophytic coralline red alga. Phycologia 51(6): 604–611. DOI: 10.2216/11-119.1 Reference page. : 606, figs 2-5, 8-13
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Hydrolithon braganum. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 11 August 2017.