Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Bryopsis indica
Bryopsidaceae
Bryopsis indica A.Gepp & E.Gepp , legitimate, scientific
Gepp, A. & Gepp, E.S. (1908), Marine algae (Chlorophyceae and Phaeophyceae) and marine phanerogams of the 'Sealark' Expedition, collected by J. Stanley Gardiner. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 7: 169 (379)-170, pl. 22 (47), figs 10-11 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Coetivy. Chagos Archipelago: Coin, Peros. In each case on reefs exposed at dead low tide. Also Ceylon, Harvey! no. 99 Alg. exsicc. Ceylon. Mauritius, Pike! Gabriel Island, May 22/71, sub B. caespitosa in Herb. Mus. Brit. and Kew.
Womersley, H.B.S. (1956), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. I. Chlorophyta. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 363 [secondary reference]
Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [secondary reference]
Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Bryopsis australis Sond. legitimate by Womersley, H.B.S. (1956), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. I. Chlorophyta. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 363
Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: ABRS(2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Wynne 2005 Contrib. Univ. Mich. Herb. 24:242 indicates that B. indica may be conspecific with B. australis.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian, Lord Howe Island), Western Australia (Dampierian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: Papua, Indian Ocean, SE Asia, Micronesia, Solomons.