Dilsea carnosa
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Dilsea carnosa, commonly known as the poor man's weather glass or the sea belt, is a species of red algae
in the Dumontiaceae family of the order Gigartinales.
transferred the species to Dilsea in 1898.
Red algae
The red algae are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae, and also one of the largest, with about 5,000–6,000 species of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds...
in the Dumontiaceae family of the order Gigartinales.
Taxonomy
The species was first described scientifically by Schmidel in 1794, under the name Fucus carnosus. The German botanist Otto KuntzeOtto Kuntze
Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...
transferred the species to Dilsea in 1898.