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Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge, 1893 
AphiaID: 144421

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Division) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulotrichales (Order) > Ulotrichaceae (Family) > Urospora (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Urospora Areschoug, 1866
Sources  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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Sears, J.R. (ed.). 1998. NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America from Long Island Sound to the Strait of Belle Isle. Northeast Algal Society. 163 p. [details]

additional source: South, G. R. and I. Tittley. 1986. A checklist and distributional index of the benthic marine algae of the North Atlantic Ocean. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 76 p. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To AlgaeBase
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Dimensions: up to 20 cm long [details]

Distribution: Long Island Sound to Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Morphology: Green colour from Chlorophyll a and b. [details]

Reproduction: general for group: asexual reproduction may be by fission (splitting), fragmentation or by zoospores (motile spores). Sexual reproduction may be isogamous (gametes both motile and same size); anisogamous (both motile and different sizes-female bigger) or oogamous (female non-motile and egglike; male motile) [details]
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, M.D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, M.D. (2009). Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge, 1893. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=144421 on 2010-07-30
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