Species Microcoleus confluens

Name: Microcoleus confluens Setchell and Gardner 1918

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: con’flu.ens. L. masc. part. adj. confluens, confluent

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … KON-flu-ens, masculine

Holotype: 1641

Valid publication: Gardner NL. New Pacific coast marine algae III. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1918; 6:455-486.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Blennothrix confluens (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Umezaki 1995

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Hydrocoleum confluens (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Drouet 1942	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Blennothrix confluens (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Umezaki 1995	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Notes:
- ❗ Microcoleus confluens is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Microcoleus.
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Setchell and Gardner) deliberately differs from the author of the publication (Gardner).
- 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Microcoleus Desmazières ex Gomont 1892

Assigned by: Gardner NL. New Pacific coast marine algae III. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1918; 6:455-486.

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Record number: 39612

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