Phymatolithon calcareum

Phymatolithon calcareum (bottom right)

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Lithothamniaceae
Genus: Phymatolithon
Species: Phymatolithon calcareum

Name

Phymatolithon calcareum (Pallas) W.H.Adey & D.L.McKibbin ex Woelkering & L.M.Irvine, 1986

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Millepora calcarea Pallas, 1766
    • Neotype locality: Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall, England. Neotype: W.F. Farnham; 11.xii.1983; subtidal. BM Box 1626. Isoneotypes: BM, LTB
• Homotypic
  • Nullipora calcareum (Pallas) Lamarck, 1801
  • Melobesia calcarea (Pallas) Harvey, 1849
  • Spongites calcareus (Pallas) Kützing, 1849
  • Lithothamnion calcareum (Pallas) J.E.Areschoug, 1852
  • Lithophyllum calcareum (Pallas) Foslie 1898
  • Paraspora calcarea (Pallas) Heydrich, 1908
• Heterotypic
  • Millepora polymorpha Linnaeus, 1767
  • Apora polymorpha Gunnerus, 1768
  • Corallium anglicum J.Ellis, 1768
  • Nullipora nodulosa Lamarck, 1801
  • Millepora informis Lamarck, 1816
  • Nullipora informis (Lamarck) Schweigger, 1819
  • Lithothamnion polymorphum (Linnaeus) J.E.Areschoug, 1852
  • Lithothamnion corallioides f. subsimplex Batters, 1892
  • Phymatolithon polymorphum Foslie 1898
  • Lithothamnion calcareum f. subsimplex (Batters) Foslie 1900
  • Eleutherospora polymorpha (Linnaeus) Heydrich, 1900
  • Lithothamnion hamelii Me.Lemoine, 1931

References

• Woelkerling, W.J. & Irvine, L.M. 1986. The typification and status of Phymatolithon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). British Phycological Journal 21: 55–80, 18 figs.: 75
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Phymatolithon calcareum. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 18 August 2017.

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