Entwisleia is a monotypic genus in the red algae family, Entwisleiaceae. There is just one species (the type species) in this genus, Entwisleia bella, from south-eastern Tasmania and represents both a new family and a new order (Entwisleiales) in the Nemaliophycidae.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Subclass: | Nemaliophycidae |
| Order: | Entwisleiales F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013 |
| Family: | Entwisleiaceae F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013 |
| Genus: | Entwisleia F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013[1][2] |
| Species: | E. bella
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| Entwisleia bella F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013
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It is a marine species found in the Derwent River estuary. It grows at depths between 5.0 and 9.0 m and is found scattered on mudstone reef flats dusted or shallowly covered by sand. The site at which it was found is subject to episodic high-rainfall events throughout the year and heavy swells in winter.[2] It is a feathery[3] dioecious seaweed, very like the freshwater red algae, Batrachospermum, but from DNA sequencing, appears to be quite unrelated.[4][2] Scott et al.'s (2013) study shows it as a sister clade of the Colaconematales.[2]
The genus was named to honour Tim Entwisle,[2] was circumscribed by Fiona Jean Scott and Gerald Thompson Kraft in Eur. J. Phycol. Vol.48 (Issue 4) on page 402 in 2013.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b M.D. Guiry. "Entwisleia F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013 :: Algaebase". www.algaebase.org. Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Scott, Fiona J.; Saunders, Gary W.; Kraft, Gerald T. (2013). "Entwisleia bella, gen. et sp. nov., a novel marine 'batrachospermaceous' red alga from southeastern Tasmania representing a new family and order in the Nemaliophycidae". European Journal of Phycology. 48 (4): 398–410. doi:10.1080/09670262.2013.849359. ISSN 0967-0262. S2CID 85309943. pdf
- ^ Smith, Bridie (1 September 2013). "Sea! Alga discovery a feather in expert's cap". The Age. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ Entwisle, T. (September 2013). "Talking Plants: New Seaweed may be Hobart's Wollemi Pine". Talking Plants. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved 27 January 2022.