Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Ulva australis
Ulvaceae
Ulva australis Aresch. , legitimate, scientific
Areschoug, J.E. (1854), Phyceae novae et minus cognitae in maribus extraeuropaeis collectae. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 1: 370 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: In caulibus Cauliniae antarcticae parasitica, ad oram Novae Hollandiae australem in sinu Port Adelaide.
  • Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Stockholm, Sweden: unnumbered
Kraft, L., Kraft, G.T. & Waller, R.F. (2010), Investigations into southern Australian Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) taxonomy and molecular phylogeny indicate both cosmopolitanism and endemic cryptic species. Journal of Phycology 46: - [secondary reference]
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Type illustrated Phillips 1988 Aust Syst Bot 1:444, fig. 24a. DNA evidence supports individuals within the circumscription of this name as being a separate species from U ridgida. (see Kraft et al 2010:1272 and suppl material).
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian).