Bryopsidales

Bryopsidales is an order of green algae, in the class Bryopsidophyceae.[1]

Bryopsidales

Contents
1 Characteristics
2 Reproduction
3 References
4 External links
4.1 Scientific references
4.2 Scientific databases Dead man's fingers (Codium fragile)

Scientific classification

Characteristics Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Viridiplantae
The thallus is filamentous and much branched and may be packed into a mass. It
is coenocytic, having multi-nucleate cells consisting of cytoplasm contained Division: Chlorophyta
within a cylindrical cell wall. There are no septae and the many discoid
Class: Bryopsidophyceae
chloroplasts, nuclei and other organelles are free to move through the organism.
The whole organism may consist of a single cell and in the genus Caulerpa this Order: Bryopsidales
may be several metres across. In the genus Halimeda, whole seabed meadows J.H. Schaf fner
may consist of an individual, single-celled organism connected by filamentous Families[1]
threads running through the substrate.
Bryopsidaceae
Reproduction Caulerpaceae

Propagation is normally vegetative from small fragments which grow into new Chaetosiphonaceae
individuals. Under certain conditions sexual reproduction occurs in a process
Codiaceae
called holocarpy. Almost all of the cytoplasm in the thallus is converted into
biflagellate gametes, which are discharged into the sea through papillae. After Derbesiaceae

fertilisation, the zygote becomes a protonema and this in turn develops into a new Dichtomosiphonaceae
thallus.[2][3]
Halimedaceae

Ostreobiaceae
References
Pseudocodiaceae
1. Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Order: Bryopsidales taxonomy
Udoteaceae
browser" (http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=4585).
AlgaeBase version 4.2World-wide electronic publication, National
Synonyms
University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
2. The Cell Biology of the Bryopsidales(http://www.angelfire.com/ri/skibi
Caulerpales
zniz/bryopsidales.html)Retrieved 2011-08-22.
3. Overview of the GenusCaulerpa (http://www-csgc.ucsd.edu/BOOKST
ORE/Resources/COMP_PUBS/CAULERP A.pdf) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20110928040100/http://www
-csgc.ucsd.edu/BOOKSTORE/Resources/COMP_PUBS/CAULERPA.pdf) 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.
Proceedings of the InternationalCaulerpa taxifolia Conference, 2002.
External links

Scientific references
PubMed references for Bryopsidales
PubMed Central references for Bryopsidales
Google Scholar references for Bryopsidales

Scientific databases
NCBI taxonomy page for Bryopsidales
Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Bryopsidales
Search Species2000 page for Bryopsidales

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