Phaeophyceae |
Scytothamnales |
Scytothamnaceae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Sessile. Tropical
Atlantic Ocean: In Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, east to Cape Verde Island and south to Nigeria, including St. Helena and Ascension Island; Indian Ocean: In Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; Pacific Ocean: In southern Viet Nam, Federated States of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, east to Mexico, including Wake Atoll, American Samoa and Hawaiian Islands.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmCommon length : 2.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 82093)
Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall, form tufts of interwoven filaments, which have the appearance
of a frayed rope at its tips (Fig. 13). Filaments are uniseriate and irregularly branched with numerous short hooked branches arising at an angle of 80-90°. Growth takes place by intercalary cell divisions. Cells are 25-33 μm wide, 60-80 μm long, L/B: 1-1.3. Plurilocular sporangia, placed on a 1-2-celled stalk, are spherical to ovoid and measure 40 x 42 (-63) μm on average (Ref. 82093). It is characterised by the shape of the plurilocular sporangia and
the presence of short hooked branches (Ref. 82093).
Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall (Ref. 82093).
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Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry. 2009. (Ref. 80701)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
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