WoRMS taxon details
Sargassum fluitans (Børgesen) Børgesen, 1914
AphiaID: 157202
AphiaID: 157202
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Phaeista (Subphylum) > Limnista (Infraphylum) > Fucistia (Superclass) > Phaeophyceae (Class) > Fucales (Order) > Sargassaceae (Family) > Sargassum (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Sargassum C.Agardh, 1820 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fucus baccifer var. oblongifolius Turner, 1807 Sargassum hystrix var. fluitans Børgesen, 1914 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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: 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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Long Island Sound to the northern region of Cape Cod [details] Morphology: Brown colour results from the dominance of the xanthophyll fucoxanthin; this masks the other pigments, Chlorophyll a and c (no chlorophyll b), beta-carotene and other xanthophylls. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157202 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Sargassum fluitans (Børgesen) Børgesen, 1914. 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=157202 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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