Cruoria is a genus of crustose red alga – that is, a seaweed.[2]: 157 

Cruoria
Cruoria pellita
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Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Gigartinales
Family: Cruoriaceae
Genus: Cruoria
Species
C. adhaerens
C. arctica
C. areschougii
C. australis
C. cruoriaeformis
C. firma
C. indica
C. middendorfii
C. pacifica
C. pellita
C. profunda
C. purpurea
C. rivularis
C. rosea
C. sachalinensis
C. stilla
C. verrucosa

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It resembles the genera Ralfsia, Lithoderma and Hildenbrandtia.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Cruoria - Nomen.at - animals and plants
  2. ^ F. E. Fritsch (1945), The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae., vol. I, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press
  3. ^ [herba.msu.ru/hyperkey/ws-algae/g2/hildenbr.htm]
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