Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Lithothamnion proliferum
Hapalidiaceae
Lithothamnion proliferum Foslie , legitimate, scientific
Foslie, M. in Weber-van Bosse, A.A. & Foslie, M.H. (1904), Part I. Lithothamnioneae, Melobesieae, Mastophoreae. The Corallinaceae of the Siboga-Expedition 61: 18-19, fig.8, pl. I: figs 17-20 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Indonesia: Borneo bank.
Keats, D.W., Steneck, R.S., Townsend, R.A. & Borowitzka, M.A. (1996), Lithothamnium prolifer Foslie: a common non-geniculate coralline alga (Rhodophyta: Corallinaceae from the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific. Botanica Marina 39: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lithothamnion pseudosorum manuscript name
  • APC Comment: ABRS(2011) uses this taxon concept.
  • Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Leiden, Netherlands: 943.7-40
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Lithothamnium prolifera orth. var. by Keats, D.W., Steneck, R.S., Townsend, R.A. & Borowitzka, M.A. (1996), Lithothamnium prolifer Foslie: a common non-geniculate coralline alga (Rhodophyta: Corallinaceae from the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific. Botanica Marina 39: -
  • AMANI dist.: Western Australia (Dampierian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef). World: Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Samoa.