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Capsosiphon groenlandicus (J.Agardh) K.L.Vinogradova, 1974 
AphiaID: 146769

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Capsosiphonaceae (Family) > Capsosiphon (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Pseudothrix groenlandica (J.Agardh) Hanic & S.C.Lindstrom, 2008
Rank Species
Parent Capsosiphon Gobi, 1879
Sources  basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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]

Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Dimensions: up to 15 cm long [details]

Distribution: Long Island Sound to Cape Cod, Bay of Fundy to Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Habitat: open coast in the low intertidal zone, attached to rocks and wood [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:146769
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-01-31 08:36:51Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2006-11-22 14:29:42Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-04-01 08:42:26Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 10:09:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-10-23 09:10:43Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Capsosiphon groenlandicus (J.Agardh) K.L.Vinogradova, 1974. 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=146769 on 2013-05-22
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