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Scagelia occidentalis

(Kylin) E.M.Wollaston
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Ceramiaceae

Scagelia occidentalis

Scagel's skein

Authority
(Kylin) E.M.Wollaston
Thallus is a very fine, red, uniseriate filament with three or four branches of different lengths arising from each axial cell. Gland cells are very common.

Habitat

This annual grows on rock, other algae, or even animals in the low intertidal and subtidal of protected to exposed habitats.

North Pacific Distribution

Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska to southern California

Former scientific names

Antithamnion occidentale

Similar taxa

Antithamnionella, Hollenbergia, Pterothamnion, Tokidaea

References

Last updated December 26, 2010

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