Tsunamia transpacifica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stylonematales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Rhodophytina Classis: Stylonematophyceae Ordo: Stylonematales

Familia: Stylonemataceae
Genus: Tsunamia
Species: Tsunamia transpacifica

Name

Tsunamia transpacifica J.A.West, G.I.Hansen, Zuccarello & T.Hanyuda, 2016

• Type locality: Long Beach Peninsula, Washington, USA (46°37.385 N, 124°04.246 W).
• Type: Russ Lewis; Nov 5, 2015; drift on white plastic bottle in the debris of the Mar 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. MELU 2399992. Isotypes MICH 701751, UC 2050560.

References

• West, J.A., Hansen, G.I., Hanyuda, T. & Zuccarello, G.C. 2016. Flora of drift plastics: a new red algal genus, Tsunamia transpacifica (Stylonematophyceae) from Japanese tsunami debris in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Algae 31(4): 289–301, 5 figs. DOI: 10.4490/algae.2016.31.10.20 Reference page. : 298, fig. 1,2
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Tsunamia transpacifica. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2 August 2017.