Stylonema alsidii

Stylonema alsidii is a species of marine red algae. The type locality is Trieste, Italy, but it has a worldwide distribution.

Stylonema alsidii
Stylonema alsidii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Archaeplastida
Division:	Rhodophyta
Class:	Stylonematophyceae
Order:	Stylonematales
Family:	Stylonemataceae
Genus:	Stylonema
Species:	S. alsidii
Binomial name
Stylonema alsidii (Zanardini) K.M.Drew (1956)[1]
Synonyms
Bangia alsidii Zanardini 1840 Bangia elegans Chauvin 1842 Callonema elegans (Chauvin) Reinsch 1875 Goniotrichum elegans var. alsidii (Zanardini) Zanardini 1873 Goniotrichum alsidii (Zanardini) M.Howe 1914 Stylonema elegans

The species was first described by Giovanni Zanardini in 1840 as Bangia alsidii.^[2][3]

Distribution

It is one of the algae of the Houtman Abrolhos, found off the coast of Western Australia.^[4] It is one of the red seaweeds of South Africa, including the seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay.

Ecology

It is susceptible to infection by the parasitic oomycete Pythium porphyrae.^[5]