• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.198-202
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• 2015

In the course of the survey of indigenous species, a red algal Hypnea species was collected from eastern coast of Korea. This species is distinct from other species of Hypnea in having percurrent and cylindrical axis, linear to lanceolate branchlets in axes except their lower portion and medullary cell walls without lenticular thickenings. This Korean entity is identified as Hypnea chordacea K$\ddot{u}$tzing (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) based on those features. This is the first record of Hypnea chordacea in Korea.