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Genus of algae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thorea is a genus of fresh water algae in the division Rhodophyta (red algae).[1] Thorea is a small alga with filaments up to 200 cm long, dark green in colour and not red as are marine Rhodophyta. The filaments have only as few secondary branches.
Thorea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Clade: | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Thoreales |
Family: | Thoreaceae |
Genus: | Thorea Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1808 |
Synonyms | |
Polycoma Pasilot de Bauvois, 1808 unaccepted |
Thorea is distributed throughout temperate and tropical regions.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. vol.12 on page 126 in 1808.[3]
The genus name of Thorea is in honour of Jean Thore (1762–1823), who was a French botanist and physician who practiced medicine in the town of Dax.[4]
Former species;[3]
There is only one species of Thorea in the British Isles: Thorea hispida (Thore) Desvaux (Synonyms: Thorea anadina Lagerheim et K.Mobius, T. lehmannii Horneman and T. ramosissima Bory).[1]
The first record of Thorea ramosissima in the British Isles is in Harvey's Manual (1841):[5] Found in a pool in a bog in the County Donegal Mountains, going from Letterkenny to Dunfanaghy; July. These specimens are in the Ulster Museum (BEL: F42–F47), but proved to have been incorrectly identified and were specimens of Batrachospermum.[6]
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