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Ulothrix speciosa (Carmichael) Kützing, 1849 
AphiaID: 145930

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulotrichales (Order) > Ulotrichaceae (Family) > Ulothrix (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ulothrix Kützing, 1833
Synonymised
taxa
  Conferva speciosa Carmichael ex Areschoug, 1850 (synonym)
Hormotrichum speciosum (Carmichael) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan, 1852 (synonym)
Lyngbya speciosa Carmichael, 1833 (synonym)
Ulothrix zonata var. speciosa (Carmichael) Stockmayer (synonym)
Urospora speciosa (Carmichael) Leblond ex G.Hamel, 1931 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species Algarum. F. A. Brockhaus: Lipsiae (Leipzig), Germany. VI-922 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]

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: 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]

Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pointe aux Oies (point) [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Notes  Authority: (Carmichael) ex Harvey Kützing in Hook, 1849 [details]

Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Georges Bank to Northumberland Strait [details]

Habitat: on wood, shells and in marshes on fucoids and bases of marsh plants [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:145930
Taxonomic
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Ulothrix speciosa (Carmichael) Kützing, 1849. 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=145930 on 2013-05-21
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