Portieria hornemannii, Clawed sea moss

Portieria hornemannii   (Lyngbye) P.C. Silva

Clawed sea moss

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Florideophyceae | Gigartinales | Rhizophyllidaceae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

.  Tropical

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Indian Ocean: from the Arabian Sea, including Gulf of Aden, south to South Africa, including Seychelles, Comoros, Réunion and Madagascar, east to India including Laccadive Islands, and south to Western Australia including Nicobar Islands; Pacific Ocean: from China to the South China Sea south to New South Wales, Australia including Federated States of Micronesia, Lord Howe Islands and Fiji, east to the Hawaiian Islands.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morfologi

Thalli small, bright orange to red and composed of erect, overlapping fronds that arise from a small discoid holdfast. Branching in 1 plane, irregularly pinnate-alternate, forming rounded axils. Diameter of the primary branches not exceeding 7 mm. Tips of the terminal branches at the distal portion of the thallus slightly expanded with enrolled tips. Basal lateral branchlets provided with simple acute teeth. Thalli about 5.5 cm in height (Re. 80758).

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Source of carrageenan (Ref. 80758) Attached to rocks or dead corals in upper to lower subtidal areas exposed to moderate to strong water movement (Ref. 80758).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2009 AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 14 April 2009. (Ref. 80701)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | AlgaeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 21.2 - 29.2, mean 28 (based on 3208 cells).

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