| Aureophycus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Division: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Laminariales |
| Family: | Aureophycaceae H. Kawai & L.M. Ridgway, 20132 |
| Genus: | Aureophycus H. Kawai, T. Hanyuda, M. Lindeberg & S.C. Lindstrom, 20081 |
| Species: | A. aleuticus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aureophycus aleuticus H. Kawai, T. Hanyuda, M. Lindeberg & S.C. Lindstrom, 20081
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Aureophycus is a genus of kelp native to the waters of Karamil Island in the Aleutians, comprising a single species Aureophycus aleuticus, formally described in 2008. Each frond is 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long by 60 cm (24 in) wide with a strong yellow vein running along each edge (central vein lacking).31 A 2013 study found the genus to be basal to Laminariales.2
References
References
- Kawai, Hiroshi; Hanyuda, Takeaki; Lindeberg, Mandy; Lindstrom, Sandra C. (August 2008). "Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Aureophycus aleuticus gen. et sp. nov. (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) from the Aleutian Islands". Journal of Phycology. 44 (4): 1013–1021. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00548.x. ISSN 0022-3646. PMID 27041620.
- Kawai, Hiroshi; Hanyuda, Takeaki; Ridgway, L. Michelle; Holser, Karin (22 August 2013). "Ancestral reproductive structure in basal kelp Aureophycus aleuticus". Scientific Reports. 3 (1): 2491. Bibcode:2013NatSR...3.2491K. doi:10.1038/srep02491. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 3749548. PMID 23966101.
- Wheeler, Quinten; Pennak, Sara (2013). What on Earth?. New York: The Pinguin Group. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-0-452-29814-9.