Asteronema breviarticulatum   (J. Agardh) Ouriques & Bouzon


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Phaeophyceae | Scytothamnales | Scytothamnaceae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Sessile.  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Atlantic Ocean: In Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, east to Cape Verde Island and south to Nigeria, including St. Helena and Ascension Island; Indian Ocean: In Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; Pacific Ocean: In southern Viet Nam, Federated States of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, east to Mexico, including Wake Atoll, American Samoa and Hawaiian Islands.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmCommon length : 2.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 82093)

Short description Morphology

Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall, form tufts of interwoven filaments, which have the appearance of a frayed rope at its tips (Fig. 13). Filaments are uniseriate and irregularly branched with numerous short hooked branches arising at an angle of 80-90°. Growth takes place by intercalary cell divisions. Cells are 25-33 μm wide, 60-80 μm long, L/B: 1-1.3. Plurilocular sporangia, placed on a 1-2-celled stalk, are spherical to ovoid and measure 40 x 42 (-63) μm on average (Ref. 82093). It is characterised by the shape of the plurilocular sporangia and the presence of short hooked branches (Ref. 82093).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall (Ref. 82093). Growing in the intertidal, often attached to barnacles in wave-exposed localities (Ref. 82093).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry. 2009. (Ref. 80701)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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