Amphisbetema indica (J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse, 1913

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Amphisbetema indica (J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse, 1913

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Amphisbetema indica; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Rhodophyta; class: Florideophyceae; order: Ceramiales; family: Dasyaceae; genus: Amphisbetema; scientificNameAuthorship: Weber-van Bosse, 1913; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Desroches S 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 13 m; locationRemarks: First Descent: Seychelles Expedition; Identification: identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender, Lydiane Mattio, Jeanne Mortimer, Paris Stefanoudis; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Creeping red fleshy algae with small, arborescent and feather-like fonds arising from a decumbent rhizome-like base (Fig. 11).