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), possessing 815 low unique knobs with appearances of sunken blade appendages, peduncle 1020 μm in diameter, 4065 μm length (
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). Stipe siphons adjacent to lateral appendages 3060 μm in diameter, appendages peduncle 150300 μm length, 2030 μm in diameter. Appendages branched twice terminating in numerous rounded projections (
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).
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, Chankanab, Isla Cozumel,
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:—
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described for the first time
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<emphasis id="9EC8EA9FFFD0FF8FFC13020302119904" box="[903,1129,1024,1049]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="206">Udotea occidentalis</emphasis>
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based in morphological and anatomical character record from West Indies specimens.
<bibRefCitation id="C82D4B7CFFD0FF8FFC870227026D9920" author="Littler, D. S. &amp; Littler, M. M." box="[787,1045,1060,1085]" pageId="27" pageNumber="206" pagination="206 - 252" refId="ref23809" refString="Littler, D. S. &amp; Littler, M. M. (1990) Systematics of Udotea (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) in the tropical western Atlantic. Phycologia 29: 206 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.2216 / i 0031 - 8884 - 29 - 2 - 206.1" type="journal article" year="1990">Littler &amp; Littler (1990)</bibRefCitation>
mention that
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<emphasis id="9EC8EA9FFFD0FF8FFB25022703239920" box="[1201,1371,1060,1085]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="206">U. occidentalis</emphasis>
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can be confused with
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<emphasis id="9EC8EA9FFFD0FF8FFEA5024B078F997C" box="[305,503,1096,1121]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="206">Udotea flabellum</emphasis>
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by the corticate blade; however both species can be differentiated by the presence of the fan-shape blade with a lower margin cordate and the uniquely lobed blade appendages. This species has been reported in depths greater than
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(Geep &amp; Geep 1911,
<bibRefCitation id="C82D4B7CFFD0FF8FFC850293027F99B4" author="Littler, D. S. &amp; Littler, M. M." box="[785,1031,1168,1193]" pageId="27" pageNumber="206" pagination="206 - 252" refId="ref23809" refString="Littler, D. S. &amp; Littler, M. M. (1990) Systematics of Udotea (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) in the tropical western Atlantic. Phycologia 29: 206 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.2216 / i 0031 - 8884 - 29 - 2 - 206.1" type="journal article" year="1990">Littler &amp; Littler 1990</bibRefCitation>
). This species was not located by the collections carried out in this study; hence, specimens from the
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herbarium were consulted to corroborate the record in the
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peninsula littoral.
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