Zonaria (alga)
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Zonaria is a genus of thalloid brown alga comprising approximately 12 species. Specimens can reach around 25 cm in size, all of which exhibit a characteristic semi-circular growth pattern which produces distinct alternating patterns of darker and lighter tissue akin to tree rings. Zonaria produces tetraspores.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Stramenopiles |
Phylum: | Gyrista |
Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
Class: | Phaeophyceae |
Order: | Dictyotales |
Family: | Dictyotaceae |
Genus: | Zonaria C. Agardh, 1817 |
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Zonaria is widespread with some species being locally abundant upon shallow subtidal of rock reefs.
The species currently recognised are:
- Zonaria angustata
- Zonaria atomaria
- Zonaria crenata
- Zonaria diesingiana
- Zonaria farlowii
- Zonaria spiralis
- Zonaria stipitata
- Zonaria subarticulata
- Zonaria tournefortii
- Zonaria turneriana
The three Zonaria Australian species Z. turneriana, Z. crenata and Z. angustata produce phloroglucinol derivatives.[1]