Premium
Lectotypification of some marine red algae described by W. H. Harvey from Japan
Author(s) -
Masuda Michio,
Kudo Toshihiko,
Kawaguchi Shigeo,
Guiry Michael D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
phycological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1835
pISSN - 1322-0829
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1995.tb00025.x
Subject(s) - herbarium , biology , algae , flora (microbiology) , red algae , botany , ecology , zoology , paleontology , bacteria
SUMMARY Much of the marine algal material collected during Perry's Japan Expedition of 1852–54 and Rodgers’ North Pacific Exploring Expedition of 1853–56 was sent by Asa Gray of Harvard University to William Henry Harvey (1811–66) of Trinity College, Dublin, for examination. Preliminary accounts were published in 1857 and 1860, but the full descriptions and illustrations intended were never completed for publication. Original specimens collected from Japan during these expeditions are deposited in the Herbarium of Trinity College, University of Dublin, and in the Natural History Museum, London. The red algae are re‐examined and, where necessary, lectotypes are designated. The transfer of Polysiphonia stimpsonii Harvey to Enelittosiphonia is proposed as Enelittosiphonia stimpsonii (Harvey) Kudo et Masuda in Masuda et al. comb. nov. It is concluded that Polysiphonia flabellulata Harvey, which has in recent years been omitted from the Japanese marine algal flora, is an independent, characteristic species with six periaxial cells. Caulacanthus compressus Harvey is reduced to be synonymous with Gloiopeltis complanata (Harvey) Yamada, and Wrangelia tayloriana Tseng is synonymized with Wrangelia tanegana Harvey.