Pylaiella
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| Pylaiella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Chromalveolata |
| Phylum: | Heterokontophyta |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Ectocarpales |
| Family: | Ectocarpaceae |
| 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]
Notes
- ↑ "ITIS- Pylaiella". Retrieved 2007-02-19.
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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