''Entwisleia'' is a
monotypic genus
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in the red algae family, Entwisleiaceae. There is just one species (the type species) in this genus,
''Entwisleia bella'', from south-eastern Tasmania and represents both a new family and a new order in the
Nemaliophycidae
Florideophyceae is a class of red algae. They were once thought to be the only algae to bear pit connections, but these have since been found in the filamentous stage of the Bangiaceae. They were also thought only to exhibit apical growth, but ...
.
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It is a marine species found in the Derwent River estuary. It grows at depths between 5.0 and 9.0 m and is found scattered on mudstone reef flats dusted or shallowly covered by sand. The site at which it was found is subject to episodic high-rainfall events throughout the year and heavy swells in winter.][ It is a feathery dioecious seaweed, very like the freshwater red algae, '' Batrachospermum,'' but from DNA sequencing, appears to be quite unrelated.]clade
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of the Colaconematales.[
The genus was named to honour Tim Entwisle,][ was ]circumscribed
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by Fiona Jean Scott and Gerald Thompson Kraft in Eur. J. Phycol. Vol.48 (Issue 4) on page 402 in 2013.
References
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Red algae genera
Seaweeds
Florideophyceae
Monotypic algae genera