Sargassum polyphyllum

Sargassum polyphyllum

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Sargassaceae
Genus: Sargassum
Species: Sargassum polyphyllum

Name

Sargassum polyphyllum J.Agardh, 1848: 308

• Type locality: Hawaiian Islands (as Sandwich Islands).
• Holotype: LD, Hb. Ag.; 02935. According to Magruder (1988: 80), a lectotype needs to be selected from J.G. Agardh's specimens.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
• Sargassum densum Dickie, 1877: 453 (as 'S. densum, n. sp. ?')
• Sargassum incisum Dickie 1877: 453 (as 'Sargassum incisum, n. sp. ?')
• Sargassum polyphyllum var. fissifolium Grunow, 1886
• Sargassum polyphyllum var. densa Grunow, 1916
• Sargassum polyphyllum var. horridula (Grunow) Grunow, 1916

References

Primary references

• Agardh, J.G. 1848. Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen Primum. Algas fucoideas complectens. pp. i–vi, i–viii, 1–363. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup. GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Dickie, G. 1877. Notes on algae collected by H.N. Moseley, M.A. of H.M.S. "Challenger", chiefly obtained in Torres Straits, coasts of Japan and Juan Fernandez. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 15: 446–456. BHL Reference page. 

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