New records of brown algae (Phaeophyta) from the Azores
- Parente, Manuela I.
- Fletcher, Robert L.
- Neto, Ana I.
Publication date
December 2000
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCAbstract
Copyright © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.The following five species of microscopic tuft-forming/encrusting brown algae (Phaeophyta) are newly recorded for the Island of São Miguel (Azores): Nemoderma tingitana Schousboe ex Bornet. Pseudolithoderma roscoffense Loiseaux (Lithodermataceae), Hecatonema terminalis (Kutzing) Kylin (Punctariaceae), Compsonema saxicolum (Kuckuck) Kuckuck, and Microspongium gelatinosum Reinke (Scytosiphonaceae). The species are described, and information is presented on their ecology and distribution around the island
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