Plocamium
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| Plocamium | |
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| Plocamium corallorhiza from South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Plocamiales |
| Family: | Plocamiaceae |
| Genus: | Plocamium J.V. Lamouroux, 1813 |
| Type species | |
| Fucus cartilagineus Linnaeus, 1753 | |
Plocamium sp. from South Africa
Plocamium is a genus of red algae in the family Plocamiaceae. It contains around 40 species and has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate seas, although it is most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere.[1] It is widely distributed in tropical and also warm-temperate and cold-temperate seas, such as northern Europe,[2] the northern Arabian Sea and western Australia.[3] They are also found in the Antarctic regions of Admiralty Bay (maritime Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula) and Terra Nova Bay (in the Ross Sea).[4]