Oltmannsiellopsis | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Ulvophyceae |
Order: | Oltmannsiellopsidales |
Family: | Oltmannsiellopsidaceae |
Genus: | Oltmannsiellopsis M.Chihara & I.Inouye, 1986[1][2] |
Type species | |
Oltmannsiellopsis viridis (Hargraves & R.L.Steele) M.Chihara & I.Inouye, 1986[2]
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Species | |
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Oltmannsiellopsis is a genus of marine colonial flagellate green algae[1] in the Oltmannsiellopsidaceae family of Chlorophyta.[3] It was named in reference to the similar genus Oltmannsiella.[1] It has three species, O. viridis, which forms four-celled colonies, O. unicellularis, which is single celled, and O. geminata, which forms two-celled colonies.[1] In Japanese it is called ウミイカダモ (umiikadamo).[4]