Fucus Linnaeus, 1753, nom. cons.
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Heterokontophyta
Subphylum Ochrophytina
Class Phaeophyceae
Subclass Fucophycidae
Order Fucales
Family Fucaceae
Lectotype species: Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus
Original publication:Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera
relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol. 2 pp. [i], 561-1200, [1-30, index], [i, err.]. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. Download PDF
Type designated in De Toni, G.B. (1891). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der echten Fucoideen. Flora 74: 171-182.
Precise date of publication1 May 1753
Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.
Common names
(as Fucus)
English: Wrack (Dickinson 1963).
Spanish: Fucos, Sargazos (Ribera 1893).
Numbers of names and species: There are 730 species names in the database at present.
Names: ('C' indicates a name that is accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):
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Created: 29 December 2000 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 21 June 2014 by M.D. Guiry
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