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Name derivation: |
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Classification:
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Botryella V.P. Shuysky
1987; there are five species descriptions, four of which are accepted taxonomically
(Guiry and Guiry 2015).
Order Bryopsidales; Family Codiaceae
Previously
called Polytretus reinboldii, transferred to Botrytella by Taskin and Pedersen (2012).
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Morphology: |
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Brown trichomes
with numerous small discoid chloroplasts per cell. Reproductive structure is a
unilocular sporocarp
arranged in clusters. |
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Similar genera: |
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Ectocarpus fasciculosis also has unilocular sporocarps
but not in clusters, as well as a single irregular ribbon-shaped chloroplast
per cell.
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Habitat: |
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Marine and estuarine
habitats. |
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References: |
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Guiry, M.D., and G.M. Guiry 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide
electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.
http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 January 2013. Taskin, E., and P.M. Pedersen 2012.
First report of the alien brown alga Botrytella parva (Takamatsu) H.-S. Kijm
(Chordariaceae, Phaeophyceae) from the eastern
Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 55(5):467-471. |
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