WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lithothamnion glaciale Kjellman, 1883

Lithothamnion glaciale Kjellman, 1883
AphiaID: 145170

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Biliphyta (Subkingdom) > Rhodophyta (Division) > Rhodophytina (Subdivision) > Florideophyceae (Class) > Corallinophycidae (Subclass) > Corallinales (Order) > Hapalidiaceae (Family) > Melobesioideae (Subfamily) > Lithothamnion (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Lithothamnion

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]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Maerl	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]

Links

To AlgaeBase
BIOTIC
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK

Notes

Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Cape Cod to Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Habitat: in tide pools or sublittoral to 40+m where it is common on mussel shells, bottles [details]

Morphology: Red colour results from the dominance of the pigments phycoerythrin and phycocyanin; this masks the other pigments, chlorophyll a (no chlorophyll b), beta-caratene and a number of unique xanthophylls. [details]

Reproduction: vegetative reproduction is rare; asexual reproduction is effected by the formation of various kinds of spores; Sexual reproduction is unique in this group due to their passive, non flagellated sperm cells (spermatia) [details]

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Guiry, M.D.

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Citation: Guiry, M.D. (2009). Lithothamnion glaciale Kjellman, 1883. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=145170 on 2010-07-30

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