Odonthalia dentata is a medium-sized marine red alga.
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Ceramiales |
| Family: | Rhodomelaceae |
| Genus: | Odonthalia |
| Species: | O. dentata
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| Odonthalia dentata | |
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Description
editThe thallus of this species is dark red in colour and tough in texture, it grows to 30 cm long and 1 cm wide. It is perennial and attached by a discoid holdfast, it grows in tufts, erect, firm and cartilaginous. All the axes and branches are compressed or flat with an inconspicuous central midrib. The lateral branches are short and are produced alternately from near the base, they are deeply toothed.[4]
Reproduction
editThe planta are perennial and the sexes are produced on separate plants, dioecious. Spermatangia are in small clusters at the apex of the frond. The female cystocarps are found in the axils of the axis. Tetrasporangia occur in pairs in branchlets.[5][4]
Habitat
editCommon on northern shores of Great Britain and Ireland in low littoral rock pools and in the sub-littoral to 20m. Also on the stipes of Laminaria.[4]
Distribution
editThe species is common on the northern coasts of Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and The Shetland Isles.[6] It is also recorded from Spitzbergen, Arctic Canada to Nova Scotia.[4]
References
edit- ^ Lyngbye, H.C. (1819). Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae continens omnia hydrophyta cryptogama Daniae, Holsatiae, Faeroae, Islandiae, Groenlandiae hucusque cognita, systematice disposita, descripta et iconibus illustrata, adjectis simul speciebus norvegicis. pp. [i]-xxxii, [1]-248, 70 pls. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: typis Schultzianis, in commissis Librariae Gyldendaliae. http://img.algaebase.org/pdf/25E4D8D711cd6252F2pT5D060A8A/13523.pdf
- ^ a b Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2019). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Odonthalia dentata (Linnaeus) Lyngbye, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=144839 on 2019-01-10
- ^ Linnaeus C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
- ^ a b c d Maggs, C.A. and Hommersand, M.H. 1993. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 3A Ceramiales The Natural History Museum, London.ISBN 0-11-310045-0
- ^ Bunker,F.StP, Brodie, J.A., Maggs, C.A. and Bunker, A.R. 2017. Seasweeds of Britain and Ireland Second edition Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, UK ISBN 978-0-9955673-3-7
- ^ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. The British Phycological Society.ISBN 0-9527115-16