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WoRMS taxon details
Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1849
AphiaID: 147470
AphiaID: 147470
| Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Division) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulotrichales (Order) > Ulotrichaceae (Family) > Spongomorpha (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Spongomorpha Kützing, 1843 | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa | Subspecies Spongomorpha arcta limitanea F.S. Collins, 1911 accepted as Spongomorpha mertensii (Ruprecht) Setchell & N.L. Gardner, 1920 | |||||||
| Distribution | Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||
| Links | To AlgaeBase To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Diet: photosynthetic [details] Dimensions: tufts 3-15 cm tall [details] Distribution: Long Island Sound to Strait of Belle Isle [details] Habitat: tide pools, mid to low littoral [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] | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2009). Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1849. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147470 on 2010-02-09 | ||||||||
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