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Taxon: Class Phaeophyceae Hansgirg (1886) - brown algae (alga)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (A. de Bary, 1881) A. Hansgirg, 1886, nom. descript.
Original name & spelling:  de Bary, A. 1881. Bot. Zeit. 39: col. 14. ≡
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Hansgirg, A. 1886. Prodr. Algenfl. Böhmen 1: 17, 27. ("Klasse"). ≡
Subsequent publication:  Kjellman, F.R. 1897(1891). In A. Engler & K. Prantl (eds.), Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1 (2): [l76]. ≡

Attributes

Descriptive name (: nom. descript.) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Sect. 1, Art. 16.1(b) (>family)] Ref: P.C. Silva, 1980. Regnum vegetabile 103: 70 ("Kjellman (1891, p. l76, nom. descipt.)").

Types

Automatically typified subtaxon: Phaeophycidae (Subclass) Scagel ex Caval.-Sm. (1986) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1986: 341. [new] [implicit]

Variants

Different rank: Phaeophycophyta (Division)
Different rank: Phaeophycota (Phylum)
Former spelling: Phaeophycea (Class) Kjellman (1891) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2004: table 4.1 (p. 77). [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Fucoideae (Phylum)
Synonymous name: Melanophyceae (Class) Rabenhorst, 1863 Ref: P.C. Silva, 1980: 70.
Including: Cyclosporae (Class) Ref: 1981
Including: Heterogeneratae (Class) Ref: 1981
Including: Isogeneratae (Class) Ref: 1981
Typified name: Fucophyceae (Class) Warming (1884) Ref: P.C. Silva, 1980: 70.
Vernacular name: brown algae ([unranked])
Vernacular name: Phéophycées ([unranked]) R. Chodat (1909)

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: bruinwieren Ref: A.C. Campbell, 1994 (1976)

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: brown algae Ref: T.N. Taylor et al., 2009: App. 1 (p. 1027).

Vernacular Names (German)

Full name: Braunalgen Ref: F. Weberling & H.O. Schwantes, 1972: 230.
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