| Genus: |
Hydrolithon (Foslie) Foslie |
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Authority: |
(Foslie) Y.M. Chamberlain |
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Description: |
Thallus habit: encrusting or partly non-adherent, flat, more or less orbicular or lobed (A). Entire (B), thin margin often with annular stripes. Size: diameter up to 5mm, up to 0.02mm thick. Colour of living specimen: mauve-pink. Colour of dried specimen: white ivory. LINK |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), north, northern (Stearn 1973). |
| Biogeography |
Western Mediterranean Sea (African shores): Tunisia; Middle Western Mediterranean Sea: Spain, France, Italy; North Western Mediterranean Sea: Spain; Middle Adriatic Sea: Italy; South Adriatic Sea: Italy, Croatia; South Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Italy; North Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece. |
| References |
Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2010). Marine algal flora of French Polynesia III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 3-205.
Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152. |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, species epiphytic on different algal specimens, common also on stones, rocks and shells. |
| Type information: |
Basionym: Melobesia farinosa f. borealis Foslie
Lectotype locality: Roundstone, Co. Galway, Ireland (Foslie 1905: 96). Lectotype: M.H. Foslie; 18 April 1899; “"sample a"” on Gigartina [Mastocarpus stellatus].. TRH sine numero (Chamberlain 1994: 116). Notes: Chamberlain (1994: 116) records selecting a lectotype in TRH. Syntypes from Sweden (Koster), Denmark (Nyköbing Mors), and Norway (Hvalöerne). |
