Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Biliphyta > Division Rhodophyta > Subdivision Eurhodophytina > Class Florideophyceae > Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae > Order Gigartinales > Family Cystocloniaceae > Genus Hypnea

Hypnea cervicornis J.Agardh, 1851

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hypnea*	J.V.Lamouroux, 1813	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Agardh, J. G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. pp. 337 [bis]-351 [bis] 352-506. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K.
basis of record	Isaac, W.E. (1967). Marine Botany of the Kenya Coast 1. A First List of Kenya Marine Algae. Journal of East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXXVI 2 (114): 75 - 84.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Hypnea cervicornis J.Agardh, 1851. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220819