Description: Microscopic. Unicellular, spherical in thick mucilage. Pinkish-brown to reddish in colour.

Habitat: Very rare. In sand.

Distribution: England: Essex. Europe: Atlantic coast of France and Norway.

Similar Species: Porphyridium is also unicellular but not pinkish-brown to reddish in colour.

Distribution Map from NBN: Rhodella maculata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Rhodella maculata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Rhodella maculata at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Rhodella violacea (Kornmann) Wehrmeyer, 1971. AphiaID: 145790.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Proteorhodophytina; Rhodellophyceae; Glaucosphaerales; Glaucosphaeraceae; Rhodella