Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Division Chlorophyta > Subdivision Chlorophytina > Class Ulvophyceae > Order Ulotrichales > Family Ulotrichaceae

Urospora Areschoug, 1866

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Urospora bangioides (Harvey) Holmes & Batters, 1891
Urospora elongata (Rosenvinge) Hagem, 1908
Urospora hartzii Rosenvinge
Urospora laeta (Thuret ex Bornet) Børgesen, 1925
Urospora neglecta (Kornmann) Lokhorst & Trask, 1981
Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug, 1866
Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens) Rosenvinge, 1893

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: シリオミドロ属 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: grønnsli (slekt) sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: grønsli (slekt)

Literature

original description	Areschoug, J. E. (1866). Observationes phycologicae. Particula prima : De confervaceis nonnullis. Nova Acta regiae Societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis. Seriei tertiae. VI.2. Reg. Acad. Typographus: Upsaliae, Sweden.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Urospora Areschoug, 1866. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:143805