RHODOPHYTA : Corallinales : Lithophyllaceae | RED ALGAE |
Description: Encrusting and calcified to 2 mm (or more) thick without protuberances. The surface is smooth, the margin without orbital ridges. Conceptacles as pale discs with central pore elliptical, becomming burried witn age.
Habitat: Common on rocks, shells and Laminaria holdfasts in the low littoral into the sublittoral to 50 m.
Distribution: Throughout the British Isles. Europe: Spain, Iceland, Faroes and the Baltic. Atlantic coast of North America: Canada and Long Island. Further afield: Arctic Russia..
Distribution Map from NBN: Lithophyllum crouaniorum at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Lithophyllum crouaniorum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
WoRMS: Lithophyllum crouaniorum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Lithophyllum crouaniorum Foslie, 1899. AphiaID: 371033.
Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Corallinophycidae; Corallinales; Corallinineae; Lithophyllaceae; Lithophylloideae; Lithophylleae; Lithophyllum
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Morton, O. & Picton, B.E. (2024). Lithophyllum crouaniorum. Foslie, 1899. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. https://www2.habitas.org.uk/marbiop-ni/speciesaccounts.php?item=ZM4110. Accessed on 2025-01-11 |