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Ceramium nitens (C.Agardh) J.Agardh, 1851
Ceramium species usually have threadlike, branched thalli with axial cells.
Ceramium nitens is a species of red algae from the tropical western Atlantic. It grows from mid-intertidal to shallow intertidal to a depth of 15 m on rocks or coral fragments and epiphytically or sometimes entangled with other green or red macroalgae or seagrass blades of Thalassia testudinum.
Ceramium nitens has been found in the intertidal zone on sandstone reefs, epiphytically on Halimeda opuntia, Sargassum cymosum and on Alsidium seaforthii , and even entangled in the ropes of ship anchors.
Description: deep red to wine red, brownish red or yellowish red color, cartilaginous. Attachment by rhizoids. Main branching alternate to irregular. Branches of the last order with abruptly tapered tips, not forked and slightly bent to the axis. Thallus filiform, segmented, branched. Erect branches up to 12 cm high, forming dense and intertwined tufts that have typical barrel-shaped segments near the base that give a particular appearance to the main axes.
Ecology and geographical distribution: Ceramium nitens was originally described in the Antilles in the Caribbean as Ceramium rubrum var. nitens and is common in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic, but rare on the Brazilian coast.
Synonymised names
Ceramium rubrum var. nitens C.Agardh, 1824 · unaccepted
Ceramium species usually have threadlike, branched thalli with axial cells.
Ceramium nitens is a species of red algae from the tropical western Atlantic. It grows from mid-intertidal to shallow intertidal to a depth of 15 m on rocks or coral fragments and epiphytically or sometimes entangled with other green or red macroalgae or seagrass blades of Thalassia testudinum.
Ceramium nitens has been found in the intertidal zone on sandstone reefs, epiphytically on Halimeda opuntia, Sargassum cymosum and on Alsidium seaforthii , and even entangled in the ropes of ship anchors.
Description: deep red to wine red, brownish red or yellowish red color, cartilaginous. Attachment by rhizoids. Main branching alternate to irregular. Branches of the last order with abruptly tapered tips, not forked and slightly bent to the axis. Thallus filiform, segmented, branched. Erect branches up to 12 cm high, forming dense and intertwined tufts that have typical barrel-shaped segments near the base that give a particular appearance to the main axes.
Ecology and geographical distribution: Ceramium nitens was originally described in the Antilles in the Caribbean as Ceramium rubrum var. nitens and is common in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic, but rare on the Brazilian coast.
Synonymised names
Ceramium rubrum var. nitens C.Agardh, 1824 · unaccepted
