Porphyridium purpureum (Bory ) Drew et R.Ross
(Gory Dew)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Porphyridium purpureum (Gory Dew)
Family	PORPHYRIDIACEAE (a family of algae)
Order	PORPHYRIDIALES (a order of red algae)
Class	PORPHYRIDIOPHYCEAE (a class of red seaweeds)
Phylum	RHODOPHYTA (red seaweeds)
Subkingdom	BILIPHYTA (red seaweeds)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Porphyridium purpureum is also a member of:
Seaweeds - differentiated, multicellular, marine algae (via Rhodophyta)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Rhodophyta)
Macrophytes - multi-cellular plants (via Seaweeds)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Belcher, H. & Swale, E.	2002	Uncommon Cambridgeshire freshwater algae (Polytoma, Hyalobrachion, Collodictyon, Chroodactylon and Porphyridium) and common but rarely recorded purple sulphur bacteria	Nature in Cambridgeshire Vol 44: 33-36.

Porphyridium purpureum (Gory Dew) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

RHODOPHYTA
(red seaweeds)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Seaweeds
(differentiated, multicellular, marine algae)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Porphyridium purpureum (Gory Dew)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Porphyridium purpureum (Gory Dew)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Porphyridium purpureum is also a member of:

Identification Works

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