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Acrochaete operculata J.A.Correa & R.Nielsen, 1988 
AphiaID: 145999

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Ulvellaceae (Family) > Acrochaete (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acrochaete N.Pringsheim, 1862
Sources  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]

Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Gulf of Maine to Scotian coast [details]

Habitat: endophyte of Chondrus crispus [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:145999
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 10:09:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Acrochaete operculata J.A.Correa & R.Nielsen, 1988. 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=145999 on 2013-05-21
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