# Acrochaetium

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***Acrochaetium*** is a genus of marine [red alga](/source/Red_alga).

**Names brought to synonymy**

*Acrochaetium elegans* (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss 1945[2] is a synonym of *[Colaconema elegans](/source/Colaconema_elegans)* (K.M.Drew) I.-K.Hwang & H.-S.Kim.

## References

1. Nägeli, C. & Cramer, C. (1858). Die Stärkekörner: Morphologische, physiologische, chemisch-physicalische und systematisch-botanische Monographie. Pflanzenphysiologische Untersuchungen. 2. Heft. pp. [i]-x, [1]-623, pls XI-XXVI. Zürich: bei Fredrich Schultness

1. Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334

- Woelkerling, W.J. (1983). The Audouinella (Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton) complex (Rhodophyta): present perspectives. Phycologia 22: 59–92, 22 figs, 10 tables
- Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475
- Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg., 1927. ([Gontran Hamel](/source/Gontran_Hamel)'s doctoral thesis)

## External links

- [*Acrochaetium* at AlgaeBase](http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=Rb800fbe0776db57a&-session=abv4:AC1F1F4C1920427E0EwxD6D4CF80)

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