Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Biome: Marine [1].
Ecology:
A. crustiformis has been reported to occur at shallow water,
from the intertidal zone to 5 m
depth on rocky substrata
(Dawson
1963). The specimens collected at Elizabeth Bay
were present in an
urchin barren, at 3 to 5 m depth (UC 2004, K
.A. Miller pers. comm.
).
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 9 Marine Neritic
- 9.2 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs
- 12 Marine Intertidal
- 12.1 Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Biliphyta
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Rhodophyta
()
- Wettstein, 1922
- Red Algae
- Subphylum:
Macrorhodophytina
()
- T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Class:
Florideophyceae
()
- Order:
Corallinales
()
- Family:
Corallinaceae
()
-
- Genus:
Amphiroa
()
- J.V.F. Lamouroux, 1812
- Specific epithet:
crustiformis
- E.Y.Dawson
- Botanical name: - Amphiroa crustiformis E.Y.Dawson
- Specific epithet:
crustiformis
- E.Y.Dawson
- Genus:
Amphiroa
(
- Family:
Corallinaceae
(
- Order:
Corallinales
(
- Class:
Florideophyceae
(
- Subphylum:
Macrorhodophytina
(
- Phylum:
Rhodophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Biliphyta
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Amphiroa
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. beauvoisii (Rosy Calcareous Algae)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
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- Dawson, E.Y. 1963. New records of marine algae from the Galápagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4: 3-23.
- IUCN. 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 12th September 2007).
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Miller, K.A., Garske, L. & Edgar, G. 2007. Amphiroa crustiformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
Identifiers
- IUCN ID: 190766
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963520
Footnotes
- Miller, K.A., Garske, L. & Edgar, G. 2007. Amphiroa crustiformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
