Entwisleia

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Entwisleia
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Entwisleia

F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013 [1] [2]
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  • Entwisleia bella

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 in the Nemaliophycidae. [1] [2]

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]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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
  3. Smith, Bridie (1 September 2013). "Sea! Alga discovery a feather in expert's cap". The Age. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. Entwisle, T. (September 2013). "Talking Plants: New Seaweed may be Hobart's Wollemi Pine". Talking Plants. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  5. 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.