Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Pneophyllum fragile
Corallinaceae
Pneophyllum fragile Kütz. , legitimate, scientific
Kuetzing, F.T. (1843), Phycologia generalis: 385 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: An Rhynchococcus coronopifolius im Mittelmeere.
  • Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Leiden, Netherlands: 941.241 - 152
Penrose, D.L. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1996), Hydrolithon, Pneophyllum, Spongites & Neogoniolithon. The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIIB: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Melobesia pruinosa Kütz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melobesia lejolisii Rosanoff legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pneophyllum lejolisii (Rosanoff) Y.M.Chamb. legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Type is illustrated in Penrose & Woelkerling 1991 Phycologia 30(6):fig. 1.
  • AMANI dist.: Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos). World: British Isles, Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Mediteranean Sea, Pacific Mexico, USA, USSR.