Ceramium diaphanum
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Ceramiales |
Family: | Ceramiaceae |
Genus: | Ceramium |
Species: | C. diaphanum
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Binomial name | |
Ceramium diaphanum (Lightfoot) Roth 1806[1]
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Ceramium diaphanum is a species of marine red algae (or Rhodophyta).
Description
This small filamentous alga grows attached, or unattached, in masses reaching 20 cm across. The branches grow pseudochotomously the tips are strongly coiled in. It is corticated only at the nodes between the axial cells and form clear cortical bands. The rhizoids are multicellular.[3]
Reproduction
The full life history is not yet confirmed. Tetraspores have been recorded in groups on the nodes.[3]
Habitat
Growing as attached or unattached clumps on other algae and Zostera at low littoral to 3 m deep.[3]
Distribution
Widely distributed in Ireland, England and Scotland.[3]Isle of Man.[4] Reported from Norway and United States of America.[3]
References
- ^ Roth, A.G. (1806). Catalecta botanica quibus plantae novae et minus cognitae describuntur atque illustrantur. Fasciculus tertius cum tabulis aenaeis XII. pp. [i-viii], [1]-350,
- ^ Roth, A.W. (1797). Catalecta botanica quibus plantae novae et minus cognitae describuntur atque illustrantur. Fasc. 1. pages 1-244. Lipsiae (Leipzig) in Bibliopolo I.G. Mülleriano. (description page 199, pl. 5, fig. 4)
- ^ a b c d e Maggs, C.A. and Hommersand, M.H. 1993. Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 3A Ceramiales. The Natural History Museum, London. ISBN 0-11-310045-0
- ^ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland The British Phycological Society . ISBN 0-9527115-16
External links
- "Ceramium diaphanum" at the Encyclopedia of Life
Media related to Ceramium diaphanum at Wikimedia Commons
- Ceramium diaphanum at algaebase.org (retrieved 22 July 2016)