Professor Emeritus; Curator Emeritus (Algae)
About
Fields of study
Phycology, systematics of marine algae, phytogeography
Research
On-going interest in cataloguing the benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic; the fifth revision of this checklist is being compiled; the fifth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera is being compiled (with C. Schneider).
Select publications
2025
Cárdenas-Barón F., B. Gavio & M. J. Wynne. Notes on the marine algae of the International Biosphere Reserve Seaflower, Caribbean Colombia. XI: Pseudobryopsis basiglabra sp. nov. (Pseudobryopsidaceae, Chlorophyta). Acta Botánica Mexicana 132 (e2419).1-8 pp., p. 9 Appendix.
Schneider C. W. & M. J. Wynne. Sixth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 68(6): 539-550.
2024
Wynne, M. J., C. Boedeker & G.C. Zuccarello. (2994) Proposal to conserve Chaetomorpha nom. cons. (Cladophoracceae, Chlorophyta) with a conserved type. Taxon 72(6): 1364.
Wynne, M. J., M. Cormaci, & G. Furnari. An analysis of “Hydrophytologiae Regni Neapolitan” (Delle Chiaje, 1829). Boll. Accad. Gioenia Nat. Sci. (Catania) 57 (387): FP1-FP109.
Santiañez, W.J.E. & M.J. Wynne. Overview of the systematics of the brown algal family Scytosiphonaceae (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae). Jeju Journal of Island Sciences 1(1): 20-33.
2023
Schneider, C. W. & M. J Wynne. Lectotypification of Iridaea lacera Postels & Ruprecht, basionym of the generitype of Kallymeniopsis Perestenko ex Skriptsova, Shibneva & Semenchenko (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum No. 275. 5 pp.
Wynne, M. J. & C. W. Schneider. Reinstatement of Ceramothamnion H.Richards (1901), a replacement name for the newly described Stirkia (Ceramiaceae. Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 296: 1-4.
Boedeker, C., M. J. Wynne & G. C. Zuccarello. Hidden diversity in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere environments: reinstatement of the genus Rama and description of Vandenhoekia gen. nov. (Cladophoraceae, Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), two highly variable genera. Journal of Phycology 59(6): 1284-1298.
2022
Wynne, M. J. & C. W. Schneider. A correction of the type of Dictyota jamaicensis W.R.Taylor (Dictyotaceae, Phaeophyceae, Ochrophyta). Notulae Algarum 222. 3 pp.
Cassano, V., M. J. Wynne & Y. Yoneshigue-Valentin. Validation of three taxa of benthic marine algae from Brazil. Notulae Algarum No. 227. 10 pp.
Wynne, M.J. & C.W. Schneider. Fifth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 65: 141-151.
Wynne, M. J. Checklist of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic: fifth revision. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 153: 180 pp.
Santiañez, W. J. E. & M. J. Wynne. Proposal to transfer some taxa under Phycocalidia Santiañez & M.J.Wynne to Pyropia J.Agardh (Bangiales, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 258. 2 pp.
2021
Sauvage, T., M. J. Wynne, S. G. A. Draisma, I. Ortegón-Aznar, L. E. Mateo-Cid, A. C. Mendoza-González, B. Martínez-Daranas & S. Fredericq. Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov., a denuded Caulerpa (Chlorophyta) resembling C. sertularioides when ‘dressed’. Phycologia 60: 13 pp.
Ortegon-Aznar, I., A. M. Suárez, M. C. Galindo de Santiago & M. J. Wynne. Description and distribution of Nemacystus howei (W.R. Taylor) Kylin (Chordariaceae) from the northern coast of the Yucatán peninsula. Botanical Sciences 99 (1): 1-14.
Wynne, M. J. & C. W. Schneider. Proposal of Medeiothamnion thouarsii (Montagne) comb. nov. (Wrangeliaceae, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 176: 1-5.
Freshwater, D. W., C. E. Miller, T. A. Frankovich & M. J. Wynne. DNA sequence analyses reveal two cryptic species of Caloglossa (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from the skin of West Indian manatee. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9(163). 12 pp.
Bustamante, D. E., B. Y. Won, M. J. Wynne & T. O. Cho. Species diversity on the basis of molecular and morphological analyses reveals new taxa additions to the tribe Streblocladieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 57: 817-830
Schneider, C. W., M. J. Wynne & G. W. Saunders (Delete submitted). On the nomenclatural reinstatement and lectotypification of Spyridia americana Durant (1850). Botanica Marina 64(3): 221-225
2020
Wynne, M.J. Preface. Pp. 7-11. In: Guide des algues marines du Maroc. (S. Benhissoune). Imprimerie Al Manar 2, Cité Dakhla Agadir, Maroc. 572 pp.
Santiañez, W. J. E. & M. J. Wynne. Establishment of Mimica gen. nov. to accommodate the anaxiferous species of the economically important species of the economically important seaweed Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phytotaxa 439(2): 167-170.
Mateo-Cid, L. E. A. C. Mendoza-González & M. J. Wynne. Validation of the name Neogoniolithon siankanense (Spongitaceae, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 147: 1.
Santiañez, W. J. E. & M. J. Wynne. proposal of Phycocalidia Santiañez & M.J.Wynne nom. nov. to replace Calidia L.-E.Yang & J.Brodie nom. illeg. (Bangiales, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 140: 1-3.
Wynne, M.J., M. Kamiya, J. A. West, S. Loiseaux-de Goër, P.-E. Lim, E. Sade, H. Russell & F. C. Küpper. Morphological and molecular evidence for the recognition of Hypoglossum sabahense sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Sabah, Malaysia. Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 35(2): 157-165.
