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Acetabularia crenulata



Acetabularia crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Dasycladales
Family: Polyphysaceae
Genus: Acetabularia
Species: A. crenulata
Binomial name
Acetabularia crenulata
J.V. Lamouroux

Acetabularia crenulata, one of the many species known as mermaid's wineglass, is a form of green alga generally found in shallow tropical seas. It can be found growing in great abundance along stretches of the overseas highway to Key West, Florida bordering on Florida Bay. It has been used in some important research on nuclear and cytoplasmic relationships. During its life cycle it has one large nucleus.

External links

  • Acetabularia crenulata at SuriaLink
  • M. D. Guiry & Wendy Guiry (2006-05-19). Acetabularia crenulata J.V. Lamouroux. AlgaeBase.
  • Acetabularia crenulata in the NCBI Taxonomy Browser
 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Acetabularia_crenulata". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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