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Phymatolithon

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Division
  
Rhodophyta

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Phymatolithon

Rank
  
Genus

Order
  
Corallinales

Subfamily
  
Higher classification
  
Hapalidiaceae

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Similar
  
Coral Strands, Coralline algae, Red algae, Lithothamnion, Lithophyllum

Phymatolithon is a genus of nongeniculate coralline red alga, known from the UK. and Australia It is encrusting, flat, and unbranched; it has tetrasporangia and bisporangia borne in multiporate conceptacles. Some of its cells bear small holes in the middle; this distinctive thallus texture is termed a "Leptophytum-type" thallus surface, and has been posited as a taxonomically informative character. It periodically sloughs off its epithallus, reducing its overgrowth by algae by as much as 50% compared to bare rock.

Phymatolithon Phymatolithon calcareum Pallas WHAdey amp DLMcKibbin Algaebase
Phymatolithon European Marine Life Photo of Phymatolithon calcareum Maerl

Phymatolithon MarLIN The Marine Life Information Network Maerl Phymatolithon

Phymatolithon Club de Inmersin Biologa 02 Algas rojas Phymatolithon calcareum

Phymatolithon Phymatolithon calcareum Pallas WHAdey amp DLMcKibbin 1970

Phymatolithon Phymatolithon calcareum Marine Life Encyclopedia

References

Phymatolithon Wikipedia