Canadian Register of Marine Species

CaRMS name details

Caerea linum Collins

AphiaID

157100 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157100)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (misspelling)

Accepted name

Chaetomorpha linum (O.F.Müller) Kützing, 1845

Rank

Species

Parent

Caerea

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

CaRMS (2021). Caerea linum Collins. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157100 on 2026-06-07

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Caerea linum Collins. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157100 on 2026-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-23 09:16:32Z

created

Claus, Simon

2011-03-01 13:43:01Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

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basis of record Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet photosynthetic [details]

Morphology Green colour from Chlorophyll a and b. [details]

Reproduction general for group: asexual reproduction may be by fission (splitting), fragmentation or by zoospores (motile spores). Sexual reproduction may be isogamous (gametes both motile and same size); anisogamous (both motile and different sizes-female bigger) or oogamous (female non-motile and egglike; male motile) [details]