Odonthalia dentata

Odonthalia dentata

Odonthalia dentata found in Newfoundland
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Archaeplastida
Division:	Rhodophyta
Class:	Florideophyceae
Order:	Ceramiales
Family:	Rhodomelaceae
Genus:	Odonthalia
Species:	O. dentata
Binomial name
*Odonthalia dentata* (Linnaeus) Lyngbye, 1819^[1]
Forms^[2]
Odonthalia dentata f. angustata Harvey, 1852
Synonyms^[2]
Atomaria dentata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse, 1816 Fimbriaria dentata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse, 1809 Fucus dentatus Linnaeus, 1767^[3] Fucus pinnatifidus Oeder, 1767 Rhodomela dentata (Linnaeus) C.Agardh, 1824 Sphaerococcus dentatus (Linnaeus) C.Agardh, 1817

Odonthalia dentata is a medium-sized marine red alga.

The thallus of this species is dark red in colour and tough in texture, it grows to 30 cm long and 1 cm wide. It is perennial and attached by a discoid holdfast, it grows in tufts, erect, firm and cartilaginous. All the axes and branches are compressed or flat with an inconspicuous central midrib. The lateral branches are short and are produced alternately from near the base, they are deeply toothed.^[4]

Reproduction

The planta are perennial and the sexes are produced on separate plants, dioecious. Spermatangia are in small clusters at the apex of the frond. The female cystocarps are found in the axils of the axis. Tetrasporangia occur in pairs in branchlets.^[5]^[4]

Habitat

Distribution

References

↑ Lyngbye, H.C. (1819). Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae continens omnia hydrophyta cryptogama Daniae, Holsatiae, Faeroae, Islandiae, Groenlandiae hucusque cognita, systematice disposita, descripta et iconibus illustrata, adjectis simul speciebus norvegicis. pp. [i]-xxxii, [1]-248, 70 pls. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: typis Schultzianis, in commissis Librariae Gyldendaliae. http://img.algaebase.org/pdf/25E4D8D711cd6252F2pT5D060A8A/13523.pdf
1 2 Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2019). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Odonthalia dentata (Linnaeus) Lyngbye, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=144839 on 2019-01-10
↑ Linnaeus C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
1 2 3 4 Maggs, C.A. and Hommersand, M.H. 1993. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 3A Ceramiales The Natural History Museum, London.ISBN 0-11-310045-0
↑ Bunker, F. StP, Brodie, J.A., Maggs, C.A. and Bunker, A.R. 2017. Seasweeds of Britain and Ireland Second edition Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, UK ISBN 978-0-9955673-3-7
↑ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. The British Phycological Society.ISBN 0-9527115-16

Taxon identifiers
Odonthalia dentata	Wikidata: Q43174563 Wikispecies: Odonthalia dentata AlgaeBase: 171 BOLD: 111020 EUNIS: 64839 GBIF: 2660045 iNaturalist: 546373 IRMNG: 11174572 ITIS: 13585 NBN: NHMSYS0021059949 NCBI: 1240992 OBIS: 144839 Open Tree of Life: 4012188 WoRMS: 144839
Fucus dentatus	Wikidata: Q67842015 IRMNG: 11219592 WoRMS: 496561

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