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Dumontia contorta Dumontia contorta

Dumontia contortais commonly referred to as Dumontia contorta. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
6270 
AphiaID:
145228 
Scientific:
Dumontia contorta 
German:
Schnurtang, Wurmblatt 
English:
Dumontia Contorta 
Category:
Red algae 
Family tree:
Plantae (Kingdom) > Rhodophyta (Phylum) > Florideophyceae (Class) > Gigartinales (Order) > Dumontiaceae (Family) > Dumontia (Genus) > contorta (Species) 
Initial determination:
(S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht, 1850 
Occurrence:
Russland, the North Sea, Alaska (Western Atlantic), Arctic (North Polar Sea), Bering Sea, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Greenland, Gulf of Maine, Iceland, Japan, Kattegat, Madagascar, Newfoundland, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, Spitsbergen /Svalbard, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, the Isle of Man, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean 
Sea depth:
1 - 5 Meter 
Size:
7.87" - 19.69" (20cm - 50cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 73.4 °F (°C - 23°C) 
Food:
Photosynthesis 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Dumontia oregonensis
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-04-04 21:45:42 

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(S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht, 1850

Description
Soft, pale yellowish to purple fronds, solitary or tufted from discoid base, tubular, cylindrical or compressed, irregularly branched, to 500 mm long, filled with a watery mucilage. Axis and branches tapered at both ends, irregularly swollen, often twisted, to 5 mm or more broad. Basal disc to 20 mm diam., persistent, erect fronds initiated internally.

Habitat
On rock and pebbles, shallow open pools, upper intertidal to shallow subtidal, common, widely distributed.
Text source: Algaebase

Synonyms:
Conferva filiformis Hornemann, 1813
Dumontia filiformis (Hornemann) Greville, 1830
Dumontia filiformis f. crispata (Greville) Hauck, 1883
Dumontia filiformis var. crispata (Greville) Greville, 1830
Dumontia incrassata (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Dumontia incrassata var. crispata (Greville) Batters, 1902
Fucus contortus S.G.Gmelin, 1768
Gastridium filiforme (Hornemann) Lynbye, 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. flavum Lyngbye, 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. incrassatum (O.F.Müller) Lyngbye, 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. intestiniformis Liebmann, 1845
Gastridium filiforme var. rugosum O.F.Müller ex Lyngbye, 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. spongiforme (O.F.Müller) Lyngbye, 1819
Halymenia filiformis (Hornemann) C.Agardh, 1822
Halymenia filiformis var. incrassata (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh, 1822
Halymenia purpurascens var. crispata Greville, 1830
Solenia filiformis (Hornemann) Sprengel, 1824
Ulva compressa var. purpurea C.Agardh, 1817
Ulva contorta (S.G.Gmelin) De Candolle, 1805
Ulva filiformis Hornemann, 1773
Ulva incrassata O.F.Müller, 1775
Ulva spongiformis O.F.Müller, 1778

Scientific paper

  1. A field study on the growth and development ofDumontia contorta, R. Pot; B. Klein; H. Rietema; C. van den Hoek, 1988
  2. The Phenology of Dumontia contorta (Rhodophyta) Studied by Following Individual Plants in situ at Roscoff, Northern Brittany, Klein, B., 1987
  3. Development of Erect Thalli from Basal Crusts in Dumontia contorta (Gmel.) Rupr. (Rhodophyta, Cryptonemiales), Rietema, H., 1984
  4. Search for possible latitudinal ecotypes inDumontia contorta(Rhodophyta), H. Rietema; C. van den Hoek, 1984
  5. The Regulation of the Life History of Dumontia contorta in Comparison to that of Several Other Dumontiaceae (Rhodophyta), Rietema, H; Breeman, A. M. , 1982

External links

  1. Algae Base (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Homepage Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Seaweed Industry Association (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. Seaweed.ie (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Seaweeds of Alaska (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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