WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Prasiola stipitata Suhr ex Jessen, 1848

Prasiola stipitata Suhr ex Jessen, 1848
AphiaID: 145800

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Division) > Trebouxiophyceae (Class) > Prasiolales (Order) > Prasiolaceae (Family) > Prasiola (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Prasiola (C.Agardh) Meneghini, 1838

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

Environment

marine

Distribution

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Boulogne, Pointe de la Creche [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]

Links

To AlgaeBase
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To ITIS

Notes

Diet: photosynthetic [details]

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

Habitat: forms patches in the upper littoral on boulders and jetty rock in the supra-littoral fringe and upper littoral, especially on "bird rocks" [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]

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

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Citation: Guiry, M.D. (2009). Prasiola stipitata Suhr ex Jessen, 1848. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=145800 on 2010-07-30

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