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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ascoseira mirabilis is referenced by 93 other articles, and connects out to Ochrophyta, Labyrinthulomycetes and Phaeophyceae.
It is catalogued under topics including Brown algae, Monotypic brown algae genera and Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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.