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Description: |
Thick, dull chalky, yellowish, pink or lavender calcareous crusts forming irregular concretions, to 40 mm thick, margins ridged where crusts meet. The specimens from the Portuguese coasts are: L. byssoides A calcareous crusts algae that grows as whitish-pink erect thalli to 3 cm high. Form a thick crust, firmly attached to rocks, which raise numerous small excrescences, laminar, circumvented and anastomosed. |
| References |
Similar to Lithophyllum sinousum
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| Habitat: |
Marine species, on rock, lower intertidal semi-exposed and exposed pools, frequently associated with intertidal populations of the purple sea-urchin Paracentrotus lividus, the pink encrustations |
| Common names: |
In English: Coralline crust In Portuguese: Folha-da-pedra |
| Type information: |
Basionym
Nullipora byssoides Lamarck
Type information
Type locality: France: La Manche [dubious] (Silva 1996-to date). Lectotype: PC (Woelkerling et al. 2005: 44). |
