Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 68 meters (225 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Chlorophyta
()
- Green Algae
- Subphylum:
Phragmophytina
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Rudophytae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Class:
Conjugophyceae
()
-
- Order:
Desmidiales
()
- Suborder:
Desmidiineae
()
- Family:
Desmidiaceae
()
-
- Genus:
Echinella
()
- Specific epithet:
nodulosa
- Gmel.
- Botanical name: - Echinella nodulosa Gmel.
- Specific epithet:
nodulosa
- Gmel.
- Genus:
Echinella
(
- Family:
Desmidiaceae
(
- Suborder:
Desmidiineae
(
- Order:
Desmidiales
(
- Class:
Conjugophyceae
(
- Infraphylum:
Rudophytae
(
- Subphylum:
Phragmophytina
(
- Phylum:
Chlorophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Echinella
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Further Reading
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- A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 148, p. 19.
- A naturalist in the Bahamas, John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861-June 25, 1891; a memorial volume / edited with a biographical introd. New YorkColumbia University Press1910 url p. 101.
- A naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12 1861 - June 25, 1891; a memorial volume, ed., with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York, The Columbia university press[c1910] url p. 101.
- A naturalist in the Bahamas: New York, Columbia University Press[c1910] url .
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 146.
- Bulletins of American paleontology. 9 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 469.
- East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 100, p. 224.
- East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 100, p. 224.
- Studies in natural history. Iowa City, Ia. url p. 25.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 121, p. 121, p. 130, p. 130, p. 60, p. 80, p. 80.
Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 17, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 17, 2007:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
Identifiers
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16201326
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2841962
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 199.350 based on 20 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
