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Pilayella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman, 1872 
AphiaID: 145482

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Phaeista (Subphylum) > Limnista (Infraphylum) > Fucistia (Superclass) > Phaeophyceae (Class) > Ectocarpales (Order) > Pilayellaceae (Family) > Pilayella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pilayella Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1823
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: 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]

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: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch kwastwier  [details]
Polish pylajella  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Cap Gris Nez [details]
De Haan [details]
Estonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Baltic Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Pointe du Nid de Corbet [details]
Pointe du Riden [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

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

Habitat: loose-lying and floating in mats to a meter long on fucoids, woodwork or stones, or as tiny free-floating fragments [details]

Morphology: Brown colour results from the dominance of the xanthophyll fucoxanthin; this masks the other pigments, Chlorophyll a and c (no chlorophyll b), beta-carotene and other xanthophylls. [details]

Reproduction: general for group: most brown algae have an alternation of haploid and dioploid generations; The haploid thalli form isogamous, anisogamous or oogamous gametes and the diploid thalli form zoospores by meiosis. [details]

Spelling: Pilayella littorallis [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145482
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Pilayella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=145482 on 2013-05-19
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