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Electronic Flora of South Australia Genus Fact Sheet
Phylum Rhodophyta – Class Florideophyceae – Order Corallinales – Family Corallinaceae – Subfamily Metagoniolithoideae
With the characteristics of the subfamily.
Lectotype species: M. charoides (Lamouroux) Weber-van Bosse (Manza 1937: 45) [= M. radiatum (Lamarck) Ducker].
Taxonomic notes: The three species of Metagoniolithon were monographed by Ducker (1979), who discussed the numerous synonyms of the species and their type specimens. Ducker (1979, p. 68) discussed and rejected records of the species from outside Australia.
References:
DUCKER, S.C. (1979). The genus Metagoniolithon Weber-van Bosse (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Aust. J. Bot. 27, 67–101.
MANZA, A.V. (1937). The genera of articulated corallines. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 23, 44–48,
WEBER-VAN BOSSE, A. (1904). Corallineae verae of the Malay Archipelago. In Weber-van Bosse & Foslie, M., The Corallinaceae of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga-Expeditae, Monogr. LXI, pp. 78–110, Plates 14–16. (Leiden.)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIB complete list of references.
Publication:
Womersley, H.B.S. (28 June, 1996)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Rhodophyta. Part IIIB. Gracilarialse, Rhodymeniales, Corallinales and Bonnemaisoniales
Reproduced with permission from The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIB 1996, by H.B.S. Womersley. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia.
KEY TO SPECIES OF METAGONIOLITHON
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1. Thallus epilithic, robust, branches | M. radiatum |
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1. Thallus epiphytic, usually on Amphibolis, branches less than 1 mm in diameter below, mostly | 2 |
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2. Genicula with several to many clustered, spreading, branches, intergenicula of varying length and width | M. stelliferum |
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2. Genicula with | M. chara |
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