Acrosorium polyneurum

Acrosorium polyneurum is a species of red algae first described by Okamura.[1] It grows in intertidal and shallow subtidal waters in Japan where it is grazed by the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus.[2]

Acrosorium polyneurum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Ceramiales
Family: Delesseriaceae
Genus: Acrosorium
Species:
A. polyneurum
Binomial name
Acrosorium polyneurum
Okamura

References

  1. "Acrosorium polyneurum Okamura". AlgaeBase. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  2. Agatsuma, Yukio; Yamada, Hirokazu; Taniguchi, Kazuya (2006). "Distribution of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus along a shallow bathymetric gradient in Onagawa Bay in northern Honshu, Japan". Journal of Shellfish Research. 25 (3): 1027–1036. doi:10.2983/0730-8000(2006)25[1027:DOTSUH]2.0.CO;2.


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