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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans (Roth) Ducluzeau, 1806 
AphiaID: 157304

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPlantae (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRhodophyta (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEurhodophytina (Subdivision) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFlorideophyceae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRhodymeniophycidae (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramiales (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramiaceae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramioideae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramieae (Tribe) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium diaphanum var. elegans (Roth) Roth, 1806
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium Roth, 1797
Sources  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]

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[sort alpha..]		 Forma Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans f. litorale Celan & Serbanescu, 1959
Forma Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans f. longe-articulata Celan & Serbanescu, 1959

Forma Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans f. longiarticulata Celan & Serbanescu accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium siliquosum (Kützing) Maggs & Hommersand, 1993
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans var. diaphanoideum Celan & Serbanescu accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium siliquosum (Kützing) Maggs & Hommersand, 1993
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium elegans var. fastigiatum Celan & Serbanescu, 1959 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeramium cimbricum H.E.Petersen, 1924
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPublished in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (1 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDiet photosynthetic [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Georges Bank to Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMorphology Red colour results from the dominance of the pigments phycoerythrin and phycocyanin; this masks the other pigments, chlorophyll a (no chlorophyll b), beta-caratene and a number of unique xanthophylls. [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReproduction vegetative reproduction is rare; asexual reproduction is effected by the formation of various kinds of spores; Sexual reproduction is unique in this group due to their passive, non flagellated sperm cells (spermatia) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157304
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-05-23 09:16:32Z  created  Claus, Simon
2010-04-01 08:42:26Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Ceramium elegans (Roth) Ducluzeau, 1806. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2014). 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=157304 on 2015-01-31
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