African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Merismopedia elegans A.Braun ex Kützing, 1849

AfReMaS taxon details

Merismopedia elegans A.Braun ex Kützing, 1849

AphiaID

177158 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177158)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Merismopedia Meyen, 1839

Original name

Merismopedia elegans A.Braun ex Kützing, 1849

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species Algarum. F. A. Brockhaus: Lipsiae (Leipzig). VI-922 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60464 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2021). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Merismopedia elegans A.Braun ex Kützing, 1849. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177158 on 2026-08-22

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Merismopedia elegans A.Braun ex Kützing, 1849. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177158 on 2026-08-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-25 06:54:52Z

created

Espinel, Nadjejda

2012-10-23 12:06:30Z

checked

Guiry, Michael D.

2015-06-26 12:00:51Z

changed

db_admin

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original description Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species Algarum. F. A. Brockhaus: Lipsiae (Leipzig). VI-922 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60464 [details]

basis of record Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). <em>Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings.</em> No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP95.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Published in AlgaeBase

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (100 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa
To PESI
To ITIS