WoRMS taxon details
Agarum clathratum Dumortier, 1822
AphiaID: 157207
AphiaID: 157207
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Phaeista (Subphylum) > Limnista (Infraphylum) > Fucistia (Superclass) > Phaeophyceae (Class) > Laminariales (Order) > Costariaceae (Family) > Agarum (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Agarum Dumortier, 1822 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Agarum cribrosum Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826 Agarum cribrum Gaillon, 1828 (synonym) Agarum gmelinii Mertens ex Postels & Ruprecht, 1840 Agarum turneri f. integra Rosenvinge, 1926 Fucus agarum S.G.Gmelin, 1768 Laminaria agarum (S.G.Gmelin) C.Agardh, 1817 | ||||||||||
| 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: 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] 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] 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] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Agarum clathratum yakishiriense Yamada ex G.H.Boo & P.C.Silva, 2011 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pacific Ocean [details] USA [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (271 nucleotides; 169 proteins) | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: photosynthetic [details] Distribution: Cape Cod to Strait of Belle Isle [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Habitat: tide pools and shallow sublittoral to 50 m or more, deeper in the sublittoral more than most kelps [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] Reproduction: general for group: most brown algae have an alternation of haploid and dioploid generations; The haploid thalli form isogamous, anisogamous or oogamous gametes and the diploid thalli form zoospores by meiosis. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157207 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Agarum clathratum Dumortier, 1822. 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=157207 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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