Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Leathesia difformis
Chordariaceae
Leathesia difformis Aresch. , legitimate, scientific
Areschoug, J.E. (1847), Phycearum, quae in maribus Scandinaviae crescunt, enumeratio. Sectio prior Fucuceas continens. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 13: 376 [comb. nov.]
Womersley, H.B.S. & Skinner, S. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), Leathesiaceae. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Tremella difformis L. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Leathesia tuberiformis (Sm.) Gray legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: See discussion by Spencer et al Taxon 58:253 as to the authorship of this name.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian). World: Cool temperate seas, New Zealand.