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Epicladia flustrae Reinke, 1889 
AphiaID: 146005

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Ulvellaceae (Family) > Epicladia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Epicladia Reinke, 1889
Synonymised
taxa
  Acrochaete flustrae (Reinke) O'Kelly, 2006 (synonym)
Endoderma flustrae (Reinke) Batters, 1902 (synonym)
Entocladia flustrae (Reinke) W.R.Taylor, 1937 (synonym)
Entoderma flustrae (Reinke) Hariot, 1912 (synonym)
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: 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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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

additional source (from synonym): MNCR and associated benthic marine data held and managed by JNCC (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Fredericq, S., T. O. Cho, S. A. Earle, C. F. Gurgel, D. M. Krayesky, L. E. Mateo-Cid, A. C. Mendoza-González, J. N. Norris, and A. M. Suárez. 2009. Seaweeds of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 187–259 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. I. Biodiversity, pp. 187-259. Texas A&M Univ. Press. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish flustras grønpusling  [details]
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Variety Epicladia flustrae var. phillipsii Batters, 1897 accepted as Epicladia phillipsii (Batters) R.Nielsen, 1985
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

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

Habitat: sublittoral I bays and estuaries [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:146005
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Epicladia flustrae Reinke, 1889. 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=146005 on 2013-06-19
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