Notes on the systematics and biogeographical relationships of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Rhodophyta with descriptions of four new genera and five new species

Botanica Marina

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 509-534

  Hommersand, Max H ^a   Moe, Richard L ^b   Amsler, Charles D ^c   Fredericq, Suzanne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Biogeography; Rhodophyta; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW TAXON; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RED ALGA; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

DELESSERIACEAE; KALLYMENIA ANTARCTICA; KALLYMENIACEAE; NEREOGINKGO; RHODOPHYTA; SARCODIACEAE; TREMATOCARPUS;

EID: 71849097525     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2009.081     Document Type: Article

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