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  2. Red algae - Wikipedia

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    Red algae, like Gracilaria, Gelidium, Euchema, Porphyra, Acanthophora, and Palmaria are primarily known for their industrial use for phycocolloids (agar, algin, furcellaran and carrageenan) as thickening agent, textiles, food, anticoagulants, water-binding agents, etc. [86] Dulse (Palmaria palmata) is one of the most consumed red algae and is a ...

  3. Coralline algae - Wikipedia

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    Coralline algae. Coralline algae are red algae in the order Corallinales. They are characterized by a thallus that is hard because of calcareous deposits contained within the cell walls. The colors of these algae are most typically pink, or some other shade of red, but some species can be purple, yellow, blue, white, or gray-green.

  4. Chondrus crispus - Wikipedia

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    Chondrus crispus —commonly called Irish moss or carrageenan moss (Irish carraigín, "little rock")—is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America. In its fresh condition it is soft and cartilaginous, varying in color from a greenish-yellow, through red, to a dark ...

  5. Palmaria palmata - Wikipedia

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    Palmaria palmata, also called dulse, dillisk or dilsk (from Irish / Scottish Gaelic duileasc / duileasg), red dulse, sea lettuce flakes, or creathnach, is a red alga (Rhodophyta) previously referred to as Rhodymenia palmata. It grows on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is a well-known snack food.

  6. Lithothamnion - Wikipedia

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    Lithothamnion. Heydrich, 1897. Lithothamnion is a genus of thalloid red alga comprising 103 species. Its members are known by a number of common names. [note 1] The monomerous, crustose thalli are composed of a single system of filaments which grow close to the underlying surface. Lithothamnion reproduces by means of multiporate conceptacles.

  7. Kelp forest - Wikipedia

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    They are recognized as one of the most productive and dynamic ecosystems on Earth. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Although algal kelp forest combined with coral reefs only cover 0.1% of Earth's total surface, they account for 0.9% of global primary productivity. [ 3 ] Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans. [ 1 ]

  8. Gracilaria parvispora - Wikipedia

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    Gracilaria parvispora, also known by the common names long ogo, [1] red ogo, [2] or simply ogo, [3] is a large species of marine red alga in the genus Gracilaria, endemic to Hawaii. It is highly sought after as an edible seaweed and is popular in mariculture and the marine aquarium trade. Also known as limu ogo in Hawaiian.

  9. Florideophyceae - Wikipedia

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    Florideophyceae is a class of exclusively multicellular red algae. [3][4] They were once thought to be the only algae to bear pit connections, [5] but these have since been found in the filamentous stage of the Bangiaceae. [6] They were also thought only to exhibit apical growth, but there are genera known to grow by intercalary growth. [6]

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