Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Padina sanctae-crucis
Dictyotaceae
Padina sanctae-crucis Børgesen , legitimate, scientific
Boergesen, F.C.E. (1914), The marine algae of the Danish West Indies, Part 2. Phaeophyceae. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 2: 45-46, figs 27-28 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: St. Croix: Coakley Bay.
  • Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Copenhagen: [Accession No. unknown]
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: R.Cowan (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Womersley 1967 Australian Journal of Botany 15:222 cites specimen # AD A13892, referring it to P. commersonii. In Womersley 1987 it is included in P. sanctae-crucis.
  • AMANI dist.: South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian). World: Indian Ocean, eastern Atlantic, Japan.