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ZOS-02 - Posidonietalia oceanicae Den Hartog ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
ZOS-01 - Zosteretalia Béguinot ex Pignatti 1953

Classification phytosociologique européenne (Eurovegchecklist, 2016)

Diagnose

Vegetation of perennial sea-grass meadows of the sandy-rocky sublittoral of the warm-temperate waters of the Mediterranean Sea

Remarques

zos03 : Herewith I validate the Posidonietalia oceanicae by designating the Posidonion oceanicae Br.-Bl. ex Molinier 1960 as the holotypus (hoc loco) of the order. Posidonia oceanica is the only character species of this order. The typification of the Posidonietalia (using the Posidonion Br.-Bl. et al. 1952) by Bardat et al. (2004) is invalid since the Posidonion Br.-Bl. et al. 1952 was invalidly described. Accordingly, the validation of the Posidonietea oceanicae (Bardat et al. 2004) is also invalid. Given the preference of some authors to use the Posidonietea oceanicae as an acceptable syntaxonomic concept in its own right, here I validate the name of the class by designating the validated Posidonietalia oceanicae Den Hartog ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2015 as the holotypus (hoc loco) of the class. (LM).

Bibliography

 Mucina L., Bültmann H., Dierßen K., Theurillat J.-P., Raus Th., Čarni A., Šumberová K., Willner W., Dengler J., Gavilán García R., Chytrý M., Hájek M., Di Pietro R., Iakushenko D., Pallas J., Daniëls F.J.A., Bergmeier E., Santos Guerra A., Ermakov N., Valachovič M., Schaminée J.H.J., Lysenko T., Didukh Y.P., Pignatti S., Rodwell J.S., Capelo J., Weber H.E., Solomeshch A., Dimopoulos P., Aguiar C., Hennekens S.M. & Tichý L., 2016. Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities. Applied Vegetation Science, 19 (Suppl. 1) : 3-264. (Source)