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Enteromorpha linza (Linnaeus) J.Agardh, 1883 
AphiaID: 145967

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Ulvaceae (Family) > Enteromorpha (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ulva linza Linnaeus, 1753
Rank Species
Parent Enteromorpha Link, 1820 accepted as Ulva Linnaeus, 1753
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]

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

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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch breed darmwier  [details]
German gewellter Darmtang  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Forma Enteromorpha linza f. lata Hylmö
Forma Enteromorpha linza f. latior H.E.Petersen
Forma Enteromorpha linza f. linearis Hylmö
Forma Enteromorpha linza f. minor Schiner
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. bicornuta H.Joshi & V.Krishnamurty, 1972
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. crispata (Bertoloni) J.Agardh
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. flexicaulis Doty
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. lanceolata (Linnaeus) J.Agardh
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. minor Schiffner

Forma Enteromorpha linza f. lanceolata accepted as Ulva linza Linnaeus, 1753
Variety Enteromorpha linza var. angusta accepted as Ulva linza Linnaeus, 1753
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Pointe du Nid de Corbet [details]
Pointe du Riden [details]
Seychelles [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Dimensions: up to 50 cm long [details]

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

Habitat: open coast and in estuaries, growing singly, in tufts or in large patches in littoral and shallow sublittoral attached to hard substrata or epiphytic [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:145967
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
2006-11-22 14:29:42Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-12-15 09:59:30Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Enteromorpha linza (Linnaeus) J.Agardh, 1883. 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=145967 on 2013-05-23
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