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Crouania
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Crouania

Crouania is a genus of red algae (Rhodophyta) in the Callithamniaceae family. The name of the genus honours the French born Crouan brothers, Pierre-Louis Crouan (1798 - 1871) and Hippolyte-Marie Crouan (1802 - 1871). It was first described by Jacob Georg Agardh in 1842, and the type species is Crouania attenuata.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Crouania minutissima

speciesCrouania minutissima

Crouania attenuata

speciesCrouania attenuata

Crouania destriana

speciesCrouania destriana

Crouania pleonospora

speciesCrouania pleonospora

Crouania brunyana

speciesCrouania brunyana

Crouania pumila

speciesCrouania pumila

Crouania francisci

speciesCrouania francisci

Crouania willae

speciesCrouania willae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 448566.