Pylaiella

Pylaiella
Pylaiella littoralis
Scientific classification
Clade:	SAR
Phylum:	Ochrophyta
Class:	Phaeophyceae
Order:	Ectocarpales
Family:	Acinetosporaceae
Genus:	Pylaiella Bory

Pylaiella (mung) is a genus of seaweed (brown algae) that can be a nuisance due to its ability to coat people, ropes, animals, and more when it blooms close to the shore under particular conditions.^[1]

Species[]

• Ruprecht, 1850
• Collins, 1912
• De Toni, 1895
• Pylaiella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman, 1872
• Kjellman, 1883
• Kjellman, 1906
• Noda, 1975
• Kuckuck, 2007
• Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1922
• Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1922
• Kjellman, 1883
• C.C.Jao, 1937

References[]

Further reading[]

• Kuprijanov, Ivan; Kotta, Jonne (December 2013). "First evidence on the epiphytic macroalga Pylaiella littorals on the prawn Palaemon adspersus". Estonian Journal of Ecology. 62 (4): 287–291. doi:10.3176/eco.2013.4.05.
• Ye, Bo-Ram; Kim, Junseong; Kim, Min-Sun (23 December 2013). "Induction of Apoptosis by the Tropical Seaweed Pylaiella littoralis in HT-29 Cells via the Mitochondrial and MAPK Pathways". Ocean Science Journal. 48 (4): 339–348. doi:10.1007/s12601-013-0032-z.
• Assali, Nour-Eddine; Mache, Regis; Goer, Susan Loiseaux-de (August 1990). "Evidence for a composite phylogenetic origin of the plastid genome of the brown alga Pylaiella littoralis (L.) Kjellm". Plant Molecular Biology. 15 (2): 307–315. doi:10.1007/BF00036916.
• Gauna, M. Cecilia; Cáceres, Eduardo J.; Parodi, Elisa R. (January 2015). "Spatial and temporal variability in algal epiphytes on Patagonian Dictyota dichotoma (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae)". Aquatic Botany. 120: 338–345. doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2014.10.003.

External links[]

• DeCew's Guide
• GBIF's Biodiversity Data Portal instead puts brown algae in Kingdom Chromista
• Cape Codder: We call it mung

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