Acetabularia crenulata (white mermaid's wine glass alga) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) (15867917057)
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Acetabularia crenulata Lamouroux, 1816 - white mermaid's wine glass alga on shallow, aragonitic sandy seafloor. The white mermaid's wine glass alga is the whitish-green, stalked organism near the center. It consists of a cup-shaped disk atop a slender stalk. Most of the fuzzy algae at bottom & at center-left & near the upper left corner are Batophora dasyclad green algae. Classification: Chlorophyta, Dasycladales, Polyphysaceae Locality: South Pigeon Creek estuary, southeastern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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- Archaeplastida (plants)
- Chloroplastida
- Chlorophyta (chlorophytes)
- Ulvophyceae
- Dasycladales
- Polyphysaceae
- Acetabularia (Mermaid's Wineglasses)
- Acetabularia crenulata
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