Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Polysiphonia sphaerocarpa
Rhodomelaceae
Polysiphonia sphaerocarpa Børgesen , legitimate, scientific
Boergesen, F.C.E. (1918), The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3: Rhodophyceae (4). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 271-274; figs 267-271 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Only found once: St. Thomas: Store Nordsidebugt.
Cribb, A.B. (1983), Marine algae of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 1. Rhodophyta: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Polysiphonia pulvinata (Roth) Spreng. legitimate by Menez, E. (1964), The taxonomy of Polysiphonia in Hawaii. Pacific Science 18: 215
Price, I.R. & Scott, F.J. (1992), The Turf Algal Flora of the Great Barrier Reef. Part 1 Rhodophyta: - [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), Northern Territory (Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef, Herald Cay), Norfolk Island. World: Papua New Guinea, Maldives, Seychelles, Tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Mediterranean.