Biology:Entwisleia

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Entwisleia
Scientific classification edit
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Subclass: Nemaliophycidae
Order: Entwisleiales
F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013
Family: Entwisleiaceae
F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013
Genus: Entwisleia
F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013[1][2]
Species:
E. bella
Binomial name
Entwisleia bella
F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013

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 (Entwisleiales) 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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 M.D. Guiry. "Entwisleia F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013 :: Algaebase". Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=51538&-session=abv4:AC1F1840190132FA2CgSM904375A. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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.  pdf
  3. Smith, Bridie (2013-09-01). "Sea! Alga discovery a feather in expert's cap" (in en). https://www.theage.com.au/national/sea-alga-discovery-a-feather-in-experts-cap-20130901-2syu7.html. 
  4. Entwisle, T. (September 2013). "Talking Plants: New Seaweed may be Hobart's Wollemi Pine". http://talkingplants.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-seaweed-may-be-hobarts-wollemi-pine.html. 
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022. 

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