Taxonavigation

Familia: Rhodomelaceae
Tribus: Streblocladieae
Genus: Vertebrata

Species: V. aterrima – V. australis – V. byssoides – V. constricta – V. foetidissima – V. fruticulosa – V. fucoides – V. furcellata – V. hypnoides – V. isogona – V. lanosa – V. lobophoralis – V. nigra – V. reptabunda – V. simulans – V. stimpsonii – V. subulifera – V. thuyoides – V. tripinnata – V. urbana

Name

Vertebrata S.F.Gray, 1821

• nom. rejic. versus Polysiphonia Greville

• Type species: Vertebrata fastigiata S.F.Gray = Vertebrata lanosa (Linnaeus) T.A.Christensen

References

• Gray, S.F. 1821. A natural arrangement of British plants, according to their relations to each other, as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. including those cultivated for use; with an introduction to botany, in which the terms newly introduced are explained; illustrated by figures. 1: i–xxviii, 1–824, pls. I–XXI. BHL Reference page. : 338

• Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. 2017. The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1–20, 77 figs. DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2016.1256436 Reference page. 
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Vertebrata. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 16 November 2017.

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