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Ostreobium
Sign in to saveOstreobium is a genus of green algae in the family Ostreobiaceae.
Species
カイガラミドリイト属
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumChlorophyta
- ClassUlvophyceae
- OrderBryopsidales
- FamilyOstreobiaceae
Habitatmarine
Observations0
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 68
- With media
- 29
- Family
- Ostreobiaceae
- Collections
- MICH, FC-UNAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, US, NHMUK, DUKE
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, French Polynesia, Norway, Belize, Maldives, France, United Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ostreobium is a genus of green algae in the family Ostreobiaceae.
Ostreobium is best known as a symbiont of corals forming conspicuous green bands recognizable by the naked eye inside the coral skeleton. Ostreobium can supply photosynthates to the coral during coral bleaching when the symbiotic dinoflagellates that usually preform this role are expelled from the coral holobiont.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostreobium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.