Description: An encrusting coralline alga up to 2 mms in diameter. Margin thin without orbital ridges, smooth surface.

Habitat: Epilithic, sublittoral to 40 m.

Distribution: Very rare in the British Isles, a few records from south-west England, Wales, the Isles of Man, Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands. Europe: Spain and France.

Similar Species: Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) Adey.

Key Identification Features:

• Margin without orbital ridges, smooth surface - glossy.

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

iNaturalist: Lithophyllum nitorum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Lithophyllum nitorum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Lithophyllum nitorum W.H.Adey & P.J.Adey, 1973. AphiaID: 145156.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Corallinophycidae; Corallinales; Corallinineae; Lithophyllaceae; Lithophylloideae; Lithophylleae; Lithophyllum