''Acrochaetium'' is a genus of marine
red alga
Red algae, or Rhodophyta (, ; ), make up one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae. The Rhodophyta comprises one of the largest Phylum, phyla of algae, containing over 7,000 recognized species within over 900 Genus, genera amidst ongoing taxon ...
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; 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'' (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's doctoral thesis)
External links
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''Acrochaetium'' at AlgaeBase
Acrochaetiales
Red algae genera
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