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Thorea
Sign in to saveThorea is a genus of fresh water algae in the division Rhodophyta (red algae). Thorea is a small alga with filaments up to 200 cm long, dark green in colour and not red as are marine Rhodophyta. The filaments have only as few secondary branches.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumRhodophyta
- ClassFlorideophyceae
- OrderThoreales
- FamilyThoreaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 97
- With media
- 51
- Family
- Thoreaceae
- Collections
- NY, MICH, US, IPA/SP, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Japan, FrançA, Brasil, India, Belize
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Thorea is a genus of fresh water algae in the division Rhodophyta (red algae). Thorea is a small alga with filaments up to 200 cm long, dark green in colour and not red as are marine Rhodophyta. The filaments have only as few secondary branches.
Thorea is distributed throughout temperate and tropical regions.
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