Zostera marina

Taxonomy ID: 29655 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid29655)

current name

Zostera marina  L., 1753

NCBI BLAST name: monocots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; Liliopsida; Alismatales; Zosteraceae; Zostera

Comments and References:

image:Zostera marina Image by Xavier Rufray from iNaturalist.com under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

Monocot Checklist (Mar 18, 2011) Name verified on 18 March 2011 in: World Checklist of Monocotyledons (2004). The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet.

TROPICOS (Mar 18, 2011) Name verified on 18 March 2011 in: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, 2008 - 4344 Shaw Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A. on line at: http://www.tropicos.org/

The Plant List - Zostera

Coyer JA et al. 2008 Coyer JA, Miller KA, Engle JM, Veldskink J, Cabello-Pasini A, Stam WT and Olsen JL. 2008. Eelgrass meadows in the California Channel Islands and adjacent coast reveal a mosaic of two species, evidence for introgression and variable clonality. Annals of Botany 101(1): 73-87. PMCID: PMC2701847. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcm288

FNA - Zosteraceae Haynes RR. 2000. Zosteraceae Dumortier. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in Part), and Zingiberidae. New York and Oxford. On-line version.