Sporolithon howei

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Sporolithaceae
Genus: Sporolithon
Species: Sporolithon howei

Name

Sporolithon howei (Me.Lemoine) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Archaeolithothamnion howei Me.Lemoine, 1930
    • Type locality: Station 2, Coiba Island, Gulf of Panama, Pacific Oceania.
    • Holotype: C. Crossland; date not indicated (material from the St George Expedition 1923-1924); PC unnumbered, General Herbarium Box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym).

• Named for Marshall Avery Howe (1867–1936), American botanist and phycologist.

References

• Wynne, M.J. 1986. A checklist of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic. Canadian Journal of Botany 64: 2239–2281. Reference page. : 2258
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. Sporolithon howei. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2019-02-13.