Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Balliella grandis
Ceramiaceae
Balliella grandis Huisman & G.T.Kraft , legitimate, scientific
Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. (1984), The genus Balliella Itono & Tanaka (Rhodophyta: Ceramiaceae) from eastern Australia. Journal of Phycology 20: 78, 80-81, figs 27-29 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Holotype: MELU 24217, (Fig. 27), tetrasporic, collected on 31-V-1976 by G. T. Kraft and C. O'Brien, growing in tufts on coral 15 m depth. ...... Type Locality: Wistari Reef, near Heron I., Queensland, (23°29' S, 151°53' E), (Fig. 1).
  • Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: University of Melbourne: 24217
Athanasiadis, A. (1996), Morphology and classification of the ceramioideae (Rhodophyta) based on phylogenetic principles. Opera Botanica 128: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian, Lord Howe Island), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef).