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Cladophora laetevirens (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1843 
AphiaID: 145051

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Cladophorales (Order) > Cladophoraceae (Family) > Cladophora (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cladophora Kützing, 1843
Synonymised
taxa
  Aegagropila meneghiniana Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora affinis Schiffner, 1933 (synonym)
Cladophora bertolonii var. elongata Ardissone, 1886 (synonym)
Cladophora campyloclada Bornet ex G.Hamel, 1929 (synonym)
Cladophora catenatoides P.Crouan & H.Crouan, 1878 (synonym)
Cladophora crystallina var. patentissima Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora falcata Harvey, 1848 (synonym)
Cladophora fuscescens Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora hamifera Zanardini ex Frauenfeld, 1855 (synonym)
Cladophora heteronema (C.Agardh) Kützing, 1843 (synonym)
Cladophora incurva Meneghini, 1844 (synonym)
Cladophora lateralis Zanardini ex Frauenfeld, 1855 (synonym)
Cladophora laxa Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora lehmanniana var. effusa Kützing, 1849 (synonym)
Cladophora leptocladia Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora lutescens var. longiarticulata Kützing, 1849 (synonym)
Cladophora meneghiniana (Kützing) Kützing (synonym)
Cladophora mexicana P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan, 1865 (synonym)
Cladophora moniliformis Ardissone, 1864 (synonym)
Cladophora patula Zanardini ex Frauenfeld, 1855 (synonym)
Cladophora penicillata f. longiarticulata (Kützing) Schiffner, 1938 (synonym)
Cladophora purpurascens Lespinasse, 1883 (synonym)
Cladophora repens f. meneghiniana (Kützing) Hauck, 1885 (synonym)
Cladophora saccata Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Cladophora trichocoma Kützing, 1847 (synonym)
Cladophora utriculosa var. falcata (Harvey) De Toni, 1889 (synonym)
Cladophora utriculosa var. laetevirens (Dillwyn) Hauck, 1885 (synonym)
Cladophora utriculosa var. laxa (Kützing) Schiffner, 1933 (synonym)
Cladophoropsis rhodensis (Reinbold) Wille, 1910 (synonym)
Conferva heteronema C.Agardh, 1824 (synonym)
Conferva laetevirens Dillwyn, 1805 (synonym)
Conferva rudolphiana var. meneghiniana (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1847 (synonym)
Conferva trichocoma (Kützing) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan, 1867 (synonym)
Siphonocladus rhodensis Reinbold, 1898 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Brockhaus: Lipsiae (Leipzig), Germany. xxxii, 459 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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: 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]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[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: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish pensel-vandhår  [details]
Dutch bleekgroen rotswier  [details]
Direct child
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Variety Cladophora laetevirens var. adunca Kützing, 1843 accepted as Cladophora albida (Nees) Kutzing, 1843
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Boulogne, Digue du Nord [details]
Cap Gris Nez [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pointe aux Oies (point) [details]
Pointe du Nid de Corbet [details]
Seychelles [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [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:145051
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Cladophora laetevirens (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1843. 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=145051 on 2013-06-20
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