Plocamium
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Plocamium is a genus of red algae in the family Plocamiaceae. It contains around 40 species and has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate seas, although it is most diverse in the southern hemisphere.[1] It is widely distributed in tropical and also warm-temperate and cold-temperate seas, such as northern Europe,[2] the northern Arabian Sea and western Australia.[3] They are also found in the Antarctic regions of Admiralty Bay (maritime Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula) and Terra Nova Bay (in the Ross Sea).[4]
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Plocamium | |
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Plocamium corallorhiza from South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Plocamiales |
Family: | Plocamiaceae |
Genus: | Plocamium J.V. Lamouroux, 1813 |
Type species | |
Fucus cartilagineus Linnaeus, 1753 |
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