''Acrochaetium'' is a genus of marine
red alga
Red algae, or Rhodophyta (, ; ), are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae. The Rhodophyta also comprises one of the largest phyla of algae, containing over 7,000 currently recognized species with taxonomic revisions ongoing. The majority ...
.
; Names brought to synonymy
''Acrochaetium elegans'' (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss 1945
[Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334] is a synonym of ''
Colaconema elegans
''Colaconema elegans'' is a species of marine red algae. It is found in Korea, California and Brazil. It is parasitic in the stipe of ''Eisenia arborea
''Eisenia arborea'', or the southern sea palm (not to be confused with the sea palm), is a ...
'' (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 Gontran Georges Henri Hamel (1883–1944) was a French phycologist.
In 1927 he earned his doctorate in natural sciences with a thesis on the red algae genera ''Acrochaetium'' and ''Rhodochorton''. He is known for research performed in the "Laborato ...
's doctoral thesis)
External links
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''Acrochaetium'' at AlgaeBase
Acrochaetiales
Red algae genera
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