Polysiphonia lanosa

Polysiphonia fastigiata

Description 8

 A small reddish-brown filamentous alga most commonly associated with the fucoid alga Ascophyllum nodosum. The filaments are made up of a ring of 12 -24 elongated cells or siphons surrounding a central siphon. The plant is found wherever the host is common. Polysiphonia lanosa has occasionally been recorded as an epiphyte on Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus and, more rarely, on rocky substrata.

Habitat 9

 Lives as epiphyte of Ascophyllum nodosum and more rarely on other fucoids. Common on the mid-littoral of rocky shores, but not extending far into estuaries.

Habitat 10

Depth range based on 45 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 2 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 4.25
  Temperature range (°C): 11.855 - 11.855
  Nitrate (umol/L): 6.151 - 6.151
  Salinity (PPS): 35.184 - 35.184
  Oxygen (ml/l): 6.128 - 6.128
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.418 - 0.418
  Silicate (umol/l): 3.285 - 3.285

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 4.25
 
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Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Lairich Rig, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Ascophyllum_nodosum_with_Polysiphonia_lanosa.jpg
  2. (c) licensed media from BioImages DwCA without owner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/../image.php?id=102084
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  7. (c) Wikimedia Commons, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Vertebrata_lanosa_on_Ascophyllum_nodosum.jpg
  8. (c)  The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/16196863
  9. (c)  The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/10658430
  10. Public Domain, http://eol.org/data_objects/17352312

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