| Ericaria amentacea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Fucales |
| Family: | Sargassaceae |
| Genus: | Ericaria |
| Species: | E. amentacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Ericaria amentacea | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Ericaria amentacea (syns. Cystoseira amentacea, Carpodesmia amentacea) is a large marine brown algae. [1]
Ericaria amentacea occurs in the Azores and the western Mediterranean Sea. It forms a species complex with Ericaria selaginoides , a similar but non caespitose species from the Northeast Atlantic and western Mediterranean. [2]