Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Biliphyta > Division Rhodophyta > Subdivision Eurhodophytina > Class Florideophyceae > Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae > Order Plocamiales > Family Plocamiaceae > Genus Plocamium

Plocamium cartilagineum (Linnaeus) P.S.Dixon, 1967

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Delesseria plocamium*	C.Agardh, 1822	synonym
*Delesseria plocamium var. uncinata*	C.Agardh, 1822	synonym
*Fucus cartilagineus*	Linnaeus, 1753	synonym
*Gelidium cartilagineum*	(Linnaeus) Gaillon, 1828	synonym
*Plocamium cartilagineum var. uncinatum*	(C.Agardh) Guiry ex Benhissoune & al., 2002	synonym
*Plocamium subtile*	Kützing, 1866	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: kamtang sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kamwier sources: Coppejans, E. (1998). Flora van de Noord-Franse en Belgische zeewieren [Marine algae of northern France and Belgium]. Nationale Plantentuin van België: Meise, Belgium. ISBN 90-72619-41-2. 462 pp.

German: Kammtang sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Japanese: ホソユカリ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: kamskåring sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: kamskòring sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: kamalg

Literature

basis of record	Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38
additional source	Vanderperren, J.-P. (1991). Natural History Archive [Natuurhistorisch Archief]. De Strandvlo 11(4): 101-108
additional source	Check list of Antarctic and Subantarctic Seaweeds by Wiencke C & Clayton MN, 2002.
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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

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). Plocamium cartilagineum (Linnaeus) P.S.Dixon, 1967. 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:145782