Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Antithamnion antillanum
Ceramiaceae
Antithamnion antillanum Børgesen , legitimate, scientific
Boergesen, F.C.E. (1917), The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3: Rhodophyceae (3). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 226-229, figs 213-216 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: St. Thomas: In the harbour of this island near the town Charlotte Amalie.
Nasr, A.-H. (1941), Some new and little known algae from the Red Sea. Revue Algologique 12: 68 [basionym]
basionym of: Antithamnion lherminieri var. antillanum (Børgesen) Nasr legitimate
Huisman, J.M., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H. & Townsend, R.A. in Bryce, C. (2009), Marine benthic plants of Western Australia's shelf-edge atolls. Marine Biodiversity Survey of Mermaid Reef (Rowley Shoals), Scott and Seringapatam Reef: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Antithamnion lherminieri var. antillanum (Børgesen) Nasr legitimate taxonomic synonym: Antithamnion lherminieri Nasr nom. inval., nom. nud.
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
  • Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Copenhagen: Slide No 56
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Lectotype selected by Athanasiadis 1996:150, Abbott 1979 Phycologia 18(3):214 described the slides etc but technically did not lectotypify the name. Price & Scott 1992 The Turf Algal Flora of the Great Barrier Reef. Part 1 Rhodophyta indicate that A. antillarum may occur on Thursday Is.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Lord Howe Island), Western Australia (Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef). World: Virgin Is., Seychelle Is., South Africa, Palmyra Is., Japan?.