Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Sphacelaria californica
Sphacelariaceae
Sphacelaria californica (Sauv.) Setch. & N.L.Gardner , legitimate, scientific
Setchell, W.A. & Gardner, N.L. (1925), The marine algae of the Pacifc coast of North America. Part III Melanophyceae. University of California Publications in Botany 8: 395 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Sphacelaria plumula var. californica Sauv. legitimate
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Sphacelaria novae-hollandiae Sond. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1845), Nova Algarum genera et species, quas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae Hollandiae, collegit L. Preiss, Ph.Dr. Botanische Zeitung 3: 50
Draisma, S.G.A., Keum, Y.-S., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Lokhorst, G.M. (1998), The species of Sphacelaria (Sphacelariales, Phaeophyceae) of China with a description of a new species. Botanica Marina 41: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sphacelaria plumula var. californica Sauv. legitimate
  • APC Comment: R.Cowan (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Sauvageau 1901 did not use the name S. californica except in a passing comment about the possibility this was a species and not a variety of S. plumula. The species S. californica was first published in Setchell & Gardner 1925.
  • AMANI dist.: South Australia (Flindersian). World: Korea, China.