Hypnea cervicornis

Hypnea cervicornis (bottom)

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cystocloniaceae
Genus: Hypnea
Species: Hypnea cervicornis

Name

Hypnea cervicornis J.Agardh, 1851

• Syntype localities: Brazil, West indies, Atlantic Mexico, Mauritius. Syntypes: LD.
• Lectotype locality: Bahia State, Brazil.
• Lectotype: LD herb. Ag. 33878, Sphaerococcus spinellus var. laxior, "In litore maris prope Bahian, legit et misit Martius" (Haroun et Prud'homme van Reine (1993: 122).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Hypnophycus cervicornis (J.Agardh) Kuntze, 1891
• Heterotypic
  • Hypnea musciformis var. pumila Harvey, 1834
  • Hypnea aspera Kützing, 1868
  • Hypnea boergesenii T.Tanaka, 1941
  • Hypnea flexicaulis Y.Yamagishi & M.Masuda, 2000

References

• Agardh, J.G. 1851. Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: Algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 1. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup. BHL Reference page. : 451–452
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2018. Hypnea cervicornis. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 8 January 2018.

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