Ulva rigida

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 300 meters (986 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Letterstedtia petiolata J. Agardh • Phycoseris gigantea var. perforata Kützing • Phycoseris rigida< /i> (C. Agardh) Kützing • Phycoseris ulva Sonder • Ulva australis Areschoug • Ulva lactuca var. rigida (C. Agardh) Le Jolis • Ulva petiolata (J. Agardh) Womersley • Ulva spathulata Papenfuss

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ulva

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

U. fasciata (Papahapaha) · U. intestinalis var. suhrii (Swollen Laurenzia) · U. lactuca (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca bullosa (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca crispa (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca laciniata (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca macrogyna (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca mesenteriformis (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca myriotrema (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca pulvinata (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. lactuca rosulans (Chicory Sea Lettuce) · U. linza (Slender Sea Lettuce) · U. pertusa (Awosa) · U. rigida (Sea Lettuce) · U. rigida fimbriata (Sea Lettuce) · U. rigida laciniata (Sea Lettuce) · U. rigida tropica (Sea Lettuce)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the British marine algae: being a list of all the species of seaweeds known to occur on the shores of the British Islands. .. / by E.A.L. Batters. [S.l.: s.n.], 1902 url p. 12.
• Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press. url p. 202, p. 357.
• An Introduction to the chemistry of plant products / by Paul Haas, . .. and TG. Hill, . .. Vol. 2: Metabolic processes. London; Longman's, Green and co, 1929. url p. 27.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 202.
• Biodiversity research in the Laguna San Rafael National Park: programme review and forward planning WCMC url p. 10.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 129.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 421.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 6.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 51 1924 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 135, p. 490.
• Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1892- url .
• Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 490.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 20 1995 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 327.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 408.
• Essays in the natural sciences in honor of Captain Allan Hancock, on occasion of his birthday, July 26, 1955. Los AngelesUniversity of Southern California Press[1955] url p. 287.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 223, p. 725.
• Flora of Guernsey and the lesser Channel Islands: namely, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and the adjacent islets. London, Dulau, 1901. url p. 305, p. 349, p. 404.
• Injury, recovery, and death, in relation to conductivity and permeability / Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, c1922. url .
• Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society. url p. 186.
• Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 6 1862 London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, &amp; Roberts: ||Williams and Norgate, 1857-1864. url p. 161, p. 176.
• Marine Algae of Beaufort, N. C., and adjacent regions. By W. D. Hoyt. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1920. url p. 421.
• Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 15 1914 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 18.
• Nature. London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. url p. 341.
• Occasional papers - San Diego Society of Natural History. 1945 San Diego, The Society. url p. 23.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 71.
• Photosynthesis / by H. A. Spoehr. New York: The Chemical catalog company, inc., 1926. url p. 138.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 717.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 176, p. 181.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 137, p. 717.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 211, p. 215.
• Publications in botany / Ottawa: The Museum, 1969- url p. 23.
• Science progress. London: John Murray, 1916- url p. 558.
• Studies in plant respiration and photosynthesis, by H. A. Spoehr and J. M. McGee. Washington, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923. url p. 78.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 102.
• The Journal of general physiology. New York, N.Y.Rockefeller Institute, url p. 1, p. 296, p. 406.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 43 1915-17 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts &amp; Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 160, p. 251.
• The Natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920-1956. url p. 605, p. 673, p. 674, p. 678, p. 685.
• The marine algae of the Pacific coast of North America / by William Albert Setchell and Nathaniel Lyon Gardner. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1919-1925. url p. 267, p. 269.
• The sea-beach at ebb-tide: a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks / by Augusta Foote Arnold. New York: The Century Co., 1901. url p. 490.
• The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks. New York, The Century co., 1901. url .
• The subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand, based mainly on observatiohs and collections made during an expedition in the government stea Ed. by Chas. Chilton. Pub. by the Philosophical institute of Canterbury. Wellington, N.Z., Printed by J. Mackay, govt. printer, 1909. url p. 494.
• Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54 1922 Wellington: New Zealand Institute. url p. 503, p. 60.
• University of California publications in botany. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1902-2001. url p. 266, p. 267, p. 269, p. 270.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal May 15, 2008:

• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Algae
• GBIF-Spain: Universitat de València, Colecciones de Criptógamas: VAL_Algae
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS - Bioresources Library (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: BioMar
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bolus Herbarium Algal Specimen Database (AfrOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Posidonia Oceanica Survey 2005
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• National Chemical Laboratory: Biological Collection, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, the Phycology Herbarium
• UK National Biodiversity Network: Marine Conservation Society - Seasearch Marine Surveys

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2638712
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Alg-40
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 194781

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 728.750 based on 19,795 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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