Bornetella Explained

Bornetella is a genus of green algae in the family Dasycladaceae.^[1]

The genus name of Bornetella is in honour of Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828–1911), was a French botanist and the genus was published in Compt. Rend. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. Vol.85 on page 815 in 1877.^[2]

Species

The World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus:-

• Bornetella capitata (Harvey ex E.P.Wright) J.Agardh, 1887
• Bornetella clavellina Tanaka, 1956
• Bornetella nitida Munier-Chalmas ex Sonder, 1880
• Bornetella oligospora Solms-Laubach, 1892
• Bornetella sphaerica (Zanardini) Solms-Laubach, 1892
• Bornetella vitileviana H.Kasahara, 1998

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Bornetella. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.