Cladophoraceae
Rhizoclonium tortuosum (Dillwyn) Kütz.
, legitimate, scientific
[Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1845), Phycologia germanica, d. i. Deutschlands Algen in bündigen Beschreibungen. Nebst einer Anleitung zum Untersuchen und Bestimmen dieser Gewächse für Anfänger]:
205
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Conferva tortuosa Dillwyn
legitimate
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Kützing p. 205 states this taxon is a North Sea entity.
[Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I]:
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[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Conferva tortuosa Dillwyn
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Chaetomorpha tortuosa Kütz.
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Rhizoclonium riparium f. validum Foslie
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Rhizoclonium lubricum Setch. & N.L.Gardner
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Lola lubrica (Setch. & N.L.Gardner) A.Hamel & Hamel
legitimate
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R.Cowan (2011) uses this taxon concept.
[Whitton, B.A., John, D.M., Johnson, L.R., Boulton, P.N.G., Kelly, M.R. & Haworth, E.Y. (1999), A Coded List of Freshwater Algae of the British Isles]:
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[secondary reference]
[ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011]:
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[secondary reference]
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Womersley 1984: 168, 178 separates R. tortuosum from Chaetomorpha capillaris. Nomenclaturally and taxonomically this has been shown not to be the case in the northern hemisphere (see the discussion in Silva et al 1996:936). Since there appears to be a warm-water and cold-water species in Australia I have decided that the warm-water species be given the name R. capillaris Kuetzing and the cold-water species C. capillaris sensu Womersley. One problem with this is that R. capillare = R. tortuosum (Dillwyn) Kuetzing, in the view of Silva et al 1996:787. I have decided not to synonymise these two names in this database purely to keep the data on the three possible entities separate. The QLD Damp. record is based on Lewis 1987 Dept of Def. Report MRL-R-1063 p. 12.
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AMANI dist.:
South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Dampierian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: Europe, Britain,Nth America, Chile, New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Singapore.
[Entwisle, T.J. & Nairn, L. (2011), Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia. Edn. Version 1.0]:
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[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Rhizoclonium salinum Kütz.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth) Harv.
legitimate
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T.J.Entwisle and L.Nairn (2011) use this taxon concept.
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Distribution:
Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia