Waernia mirabilis

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Dumontiaceae
Genus: Waernia
Species: Waernia mirabilis

Name

Waernia mirabilis R.T.Wilce, Maggs & Sears, 2003

• Holotype locality: Manomet Point, Plymouth county MA. Holotype: R. Wilce; 2 November 1977; At 7 m depth, on granite cobble. Wilce slide collection at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Wilce no. 620:77-MASS. (Monoecious gametophytes). Isotypes: U.S. National Herbarium, Washington, DC and University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA.

References

• Wilce, R.T., Maggs, C.A. & Sears, J.R. 2003. Waernia mirabilis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Dumontiaceae, Gigartinales): a new noncoralline crustose red alga from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and its relationship to Gainia and Blinksia. Journal of Phycology 39: 198–212.: 200, figs 2–6
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2018. Waernia mirabilis. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 10 January 2018.