Ascoseira mirabilis
Sign in to saveAscoseira is a monotypic genus of seaweed in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). The single and type species, Ascoseira mirabilis Skottsberg, is a large parenchymatous macroalgae, and is endemic to the Antarctic Ocean. Ascoseira is assigned to its own order. The alga grows in subtidal waters at depths of from 3 to 15 meters.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumOchrophyta
- ClassPhaeophyceae
- OrderAscoseirales
- FamilyAscoseiraceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Ascoseiraceae
- Collections
- MBM, S
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands
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Ascoseira is a monotypic genus of seaweed in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). The single and type species, Ascoseira mirabilis Skottsberg, is a large parenchymatous macroalgae, and is endemic to the Antarctic Ocean. Ascoseira is assigned to its own order. The alga grows in subtidal waters at depths of from 3 to 15 meters.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ascoseira mirabilis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.