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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:00, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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Halimeda tuna

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  • ... that a frond of the seaweed Halimeda tuna (pictured) consists of a single cell? Source: "Typically, the Bryopsidales are filamentous and consist of a mass of continuous cytoplasm held inside a hollow, cylindrical cell wall. There are usually no cross-walls and therefore no physical separation between nuclei or other internal structures. In some genera, such as Halimeda, the filaments are highly branched and packed into a dense mass called a thallus."
    • ALT1:... that when the seaweed Halimeda tuna (pictured) dies, it breaks down to form "sand"? Source: "During the 1950s when large numbers of deep boreholes were drilled into Pacific atolls, geologists found that the dominant element of the carbonate structure of these atolls was not stony coral but rather a lithified sand made up of the lobes of Halimeda. The members of this genus rank as one of the most important calcifiers of the biosphere; it is likely that their CaCO3 production over all tropical seas is considerably greater than that of the stony corals."

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:46, 18 June 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I really like Alt0, but I'm not seeing in the referenced text where it makes the cited claim. Can you pull the quote? Enwebb (talk) 17:31, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

@Enwebb: Thank you for the review. I have now added the quote above and expanded on the single cell bit in the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:03, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Cwmhiraeth thanks! Looks good to me now. Enwebb (talk) 02:18, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
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