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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
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Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi (detailed information)
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Species Details
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Class: |
Florideophyceae |
Genus: |
Jania J.V. Lamouroux |
Species: |
Jania squamata |
Authority: |
(Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi |
Description: |
Fronds characteriatically pink with whitish tips (above), calcified, articulated, regularly pinnate, to 200 mm long, axis compressed, repeatedly pinnate from and entangles stoloniferous base, more abundantly and regularly branched than C. officinalis. Articulations relatively large, distinctly shield-shaped, often arrow-shaped. Original publication: Kim, J.H., Guiry, M.D., Oak, J.H., Choi, D.-S., Kang, S.-H., Chung, H. & Choi, H.-G. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Janieae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morphological data: a reappraisal of Jania. Journal of Phycology 43: 1310-1319.
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Name History |
Adjective (Latin), furnished with scales |
Biogeography |
Middle Western Mediterranean Sea: France, Italy; North Adriatic Sea: Italy; Middle Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece; North Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece. |
Life Cycle |
Gametangial conceptacles: spermatangial conceptacles are rare, outside diameter not recorded; carposporangial conceptacles, 150 µm in diameter x 180 µm high. Tetra/bisporangial conceptacles: pedunculate, fusiform, corniculate; 420-750 µm in diameter outside. |
References |
Johansen, H.W., Irvine, L.M. & Webster, A.M. (1973). Haliptilon squamatum (L.) comb. nov., a poorly known British coralline alga. British Phycological Journal 8: 212 only. |

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Habitat: |
Marine species, mostly epiphytic on Cystoseira species in lower-shore pools on moderately wave-exposed coasts. Occasionally on rock. Rare. |
Type information: |
Basionym: Corallina squamata Linnaeus Type locality: “Oc. Europaeo” (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 234). |
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1975 specimens in MACOI collections
2293 bibliographic references
2839 occurrence records
6322 images
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