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Scagel's Skein
Scagelia occidentalis
Authority:
(Kylin) E.M.Wollaston
North Pacific Distribution:
Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to southern California
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Florideophyceae
Order:
Ceramiales
Family:
Ceramiaceae
Former Scientific Names:
Antithamnion occidentale
Description: Thallus is a very fine, red, uniseriate filament with three or four branches of different lengths arising from each axial cell. Gland cells are very common. Habitat: This annual grows on rock, other algae, or even animals in the low intertidal and subtidal of protected to exposed habitats. Similar taxa: Antithamnionella, Hollenbergia, Pterothamnion, Tokidaea
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