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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | UTC clade |
| Order: | Ulotrichales |
| Family: | Ulotrichaceae |
| Genus: | Ulothrix Kützing (orth. var. Kuetzing) |
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(The endemic species from Bangladesh is Ulothrix simplex) | |
Ulothrix is a genus of green algae in the family Ulotrichaceae.[1]
Ulothrix is a genus of non-branching filamentous green algae, generally found in fresh and marine water. Its cells are normally as broad as they are long, and they thrive in the low temperatures of spring and winter. They become attached to surfaces by a modified holdfast cell. Reproduction is normally vegetative. They are Eukaryotic and multicellular because the cells have specific functions as the lowermost cell serves as holdfast and it doesn't have chloroplast, and the apical cell is dome-shaped.
The genus includes:
- Ulothrix aequalis Kützing[2]
- Ulothrix moniliformis Kützing[2]
- Ulothrix flacca (Dillwyn) Thuret in Le Jolis[3]
- Ulothrix implexa (Kützing) Kützing
- Ulothrix speciosa (Carmichael ex Harvey in Hooker) Kützing[3]
- Ulothrix tenerrima Kützing[2]
- Ulothrix tenuissima Kützing[2]
- Ulothrix zonata (Weber et Mohr) Kützing[2]
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Ulothrix. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ a b c d e Guiry, M.D., John, D.M., Rindi, F and McCarthy, T.K. (ed.) 2007. New Survey of Clare Island Volume: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 978-1-904890-31-7.
- ^ a b Burrows, E.M. 1991. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 2: Chlorophyta. Natural History Museum, London ISBN 0-565-00981-8.