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Colpomenia peregrina

Sauvageau
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Ectocarpales
Family
Scytosiphonaceae

Colpomenia peregrina

Bulb seaweed

Authority
Sauvageau
Thallus is golden brown, globular, reaching 7 cm (3 in) or more in diameter with an irregular basal attachment. The thin, smooth, hollow thallus tears easily. The thallus also has colorless hairs in clusters on its surface.

Habitat

This annual usually grows on other algae but is sometimes found directly on rock in the low intertidal in semi-exposed to semi-protected habitats.

North Pacific Distribution

Aleutian Islands, Alaska to southern California; Korea; Japan; Russia

Former scientific names

Colpomenia sinuosa var. peregrina

Similar taxa

Leathesia marina

References

Last updated December 26, 2010

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