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Bolbocoleon piliferum N.Pringsheim, 1862 
AphiaID: 144865

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Bolbocoleonaceae (Family) > Bolbocoleon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Bolbocoleon Pringsheim, 1863
Parent Bolbocoleon Pringsheim, 1863
Synonymised
taxa
  Bolbocoleau piliferum N. Pringsheim (misspelling)
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: Stegenga, H.; Mol, I. (1983). Flora van de Nederlandse zeewieren [Flora of the Dutch seaweeds]. Natural History Library of the KNNV, 33. Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging (KNNV): Hoogwoud, The Netherlands. 263 pp. (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]

from synonym: Silva, C., P. Basson & R. Moe (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. Volume 79 of University of California Publications in Botany (ISBN 0-520-09810-2). [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish grøn løghår  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

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

Habitat: epiphytic or endophyte in a variety of algae in the littoral and sublittoral [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:144865
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 10:09:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Bolbocoleon piliferum N.Pringsheim, 1862. 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=144865 on 2013-05-20
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