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Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-15
Page range: 230–253
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Taxonomic review of Hydrolithon samoënse (Corallinaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and other taxa found to be conspecific

Department of Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, P. Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa.
Department of Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, P. Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa.
Department of Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, P. Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa.
Hydrolithoideae non-geniculate coralline red algae taxonomy

Abstract

Based on new studies of the type and of specimens from various localities in the Indian and Pacific oceans, Hydrolithon samoënse was reaffirmed as a distinct species. The following taxa were found to be heterotypic synonyms thereof: Neogoniolithon caribaeum, N. erosum and N. rugulosum. Based on morphological and anatomical data H. samoënse not only occurs extensively throughout the Indo-Pacific and northern, southern and subtropical eastern Atlantic oceans, but as a result of the present study, is now known to occur throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the western Atlantic Ocean.