WoRMS taxon details
Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke, 1889
AphiaID: 144478
AphiaID: 144478
| Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Bryopsidophyceae (Class) > Bryopsidales (Order) > Chaetosiphonaceae (Family) > Blastophysa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Blastophysa Reinke, 1889 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Blastophysa arrhiza Wille, 1891 (synonym) Blastophysa polymorpha Kjellmann, 1897 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Fredericq, S., T. O. Cho, S. A. Earle, C. F. Gurgel, D. M. Krayesky, L. E. Mateo-Cid, A. C. Mendoza-González, J. N. Norris, and A. M. Suárez. 2009. Seaweeds of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 187–259 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. I. Biodiversity, pp. 187-259. Texas A&M Univ. Press. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: photosynthetic [details] Distribution: Long Island Sound to Northumberland Strait [details] Habitat: irregular extensions on or other crusts on stone or shell, littoral to sublittoral to 15 m [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] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144478 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke, 1889. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=144478 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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