Pylaiella (mung) is a genus of seaweed (brown algae) that can be a nuisance due to its ability to coat people, ropes, animals, and more when it blooms close to the shore under particular conditions.[1]
| Pylaiella | |
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| Pylaiella littoralis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Ectocarpales |
| Family: | Acinetosporaceae |
| Genus: | Pylaiella Bory |
Species edit
- Pylaiella aquitanica Ruprecht, 1850
- Pylaiella gardneri Collins, 1912
- Pylaiella hooperi De Toni, 1895
- Pylaiella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman, 1872
- Pylaiella nana Kjellman, 1883
- Pylaiella penicilliformis Kjellman, 1906
- Pylaiella petaloniae Noda, 1975
- Pylaiella seriata Kuckuck, 2007
- Pylaiella tenella Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1922
- Pylaiella unilateralis Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1922
- Pylaiella varia Kjellman, 1883
- Pylaiella washingtoniensis C.C.Jao, 1937
References edit
- ^ "ITIS- Pylaiella". Retrieved 2007-02-19.
Further reading edit
- Kuprijanov, Ivan; Kotta, Jonne (December 2013). "First evidence on the epiphytic macroalga Pylaiella littorals on the prawn Palaemon adspersus". Estonian Journal of Ecology. 62 (4): 287–291. doi:10.3176/eco.2013.4.05.
- Ye, Bo-Ram; Kim, Junseong; Kim, Min-Sun (23 December 2013). "Induction of Apoptosis by the Tropical Seaweed Pylaiella littoralis in HT-29 Cells via the Mitochondrial and MAPK Pathways". Ocean Science Journal. 48 (4): 339–348. doi:10.1007/s12601-013-0032-z.
- Assali, Nour-Eddine; Mache, Regis; Goer, Susan Loiseaux-de (August 1990). "Evidence for a composite phylogenetic origin of the plastid genome of the brown alga Pylaiella littoralis (L.) Kjellm". Plant Molecular Biology. 15 (2): 307–315. doi:10.1007/BF00036916.
- Gauna, M. Cecilia; Cáceres, Eduardo J.; Parodi, Elisa R. (January 2015). "Spatial and temporal variability in algal epiphytes on Patagonian Dictyota dichotoma (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae)". Aquatic Botany. 120: 338–345. doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2014.10.003. hdl:11336/23024.
External links edit
- DeCew's Guide
- GBIF's Biodiversity Data Portal instead puts brown algae in Kingdom Chromista
- Cape Codder: We call it mung
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