Neopolyporolithon articum

Arctic coralline crust

Authority: (Kjellman) P.W.Gabrielson, S.C.Lindstrom & Hughey

Crusts shiny or chalky, without surface grooves, but with irregular low spheroidal protuberances, usually less than 2 cm thick but up to 30 cm or more in diameter, pinkish gray in color; margins can become lobate or “leafy.”

Habitat

Intertidal and subtidal on rock.

North Pacific Distribution

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to Southeast Alaska; Russia

Former scientific names

Clathromorphum loculosum, Lithophyllum arcticum, Lithothamnion arcticum, Mesophyllum arcticum, Leptophytum arcticum, Lithothamnion loculosum, Neopolyporolithon loculosum

Similar taxa

Clathromorphum spp.

References

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Last updated December 26, 2010