The Australian Algae Name Index (AANI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with algae names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. AANI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian Algae, please use the Australian Algae List (AAL) link above.
Showing Colpomenia peregrina
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Type locality: No type statement is found in Sauvageau 1927.
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APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
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Comment: The combination Colpomenia peregrina (Sauvageau) Hamel 1937 Phéophycées de France p. 201 is unnecessary (see Silva et al. 1987 Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences No. 27:627). Kraft (2009) Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and Southern Great Barrier Reef 2 Brown Algae p. 118 calls in to question the records of this taxon from QLD and also from Rottnest and Houtman Abrohlos Is. WA. -
AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: Widely distributed in temperate seas, New Zealand.