Acrochaetium Explained

Acrochaetium is a genus of marine red alga.

Names brought to synonymyAcrochaetium elegans (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss 1945^[1] is a synonym of Colaconema elegans (K.M.Drew) I.-K.Hwang & H.-S.Kim.

References

• Woelkerling, W.J. (1983). The Audouinella (Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton) complex (Rhodophyta): present perspectives. Phycologia 22: 59–92, 22 figs, 10 tables
• Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475
• Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg., 1927. (Gontran Hamel's doctoral thesis)

External links

• • • Acrochaetium at AlgaeBase

Notes and References

1. Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334