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Enteromorpha pilifera Kützing, 1856 
AphiaID: 157122

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Ulvaceae (Family) > Enteromorpha (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ulva flexuosa pilifera (Kützing) M.J.Wynne, 2005
Rank Species
Parent Enteromorpha Link, 1820 accepted as Ulva Linnaeus, 1753
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

source of synonymy: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Dimensions: up to 50 cm long [details]

Distribution: Quebec region [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:157122
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 09:16:32Z  created  Claus, Simon
2006-11-22 14:29:42Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-12-15 09:59:30Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-10-23 09:43:47Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Enteromorpha pilifera Kützing, 1856. 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=157122 on 2013-05-25
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