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Enteromorpha crinita Nees, 1820 
AphiaID: 156079

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 clathrata (Roth) C.Agardh, 1811
Rank Species
Parent Enteromorpha Link, 1820 accepted as Ulva Linnaeus, 1753
Sources  basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

basis of record: Dulyamode, R. (1996). An overview of marine algae of Mauritius. In: Current Trends in Marine Botany Research in the East African Region. 132 - 140. [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]

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 Forma Enteromorpha crinita f. grossa Hylmö
Forma Enteromorpha crinita f. latior Schiner
Variety Enteromorpha crinita var. procera-ramulifera Hylmö

Forma Enteromorpha crinita f. procera (Ahlner) Sjöstedt accepted as Ulva procera (K.Ahlner) Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, M.J.Stanhope & J.R.Waaland, 2003 accepted as Ulva linza Linnaeus, 1753
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Mauritius [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Dimensions: up to 40 cm long [details]

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

Habitat: found in somewhat protected areas in the mid-littoral to upper littoral attached to rocks, epiphytic or in mats [details]

Morphology: Green colour from Chlorophyll a and b. [details]

Remark: According to Silva(1996) is Enteromorpha crinita as synonym of Enteromorpha muscoides (Clemente y Rubio) Cremades [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:156079
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-06 07:51:46Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
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 crinita Nees, 1820. 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=156079 on 2013-05-23
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