APPENDIX B Marine Species Lists
Species |
Common name/description |
CYANOBACTERIA |
BLUE GREEN ALGAE |
Various spp |
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BACILLARIOPHYTA |
DIATOMS |
Loose skeins on mud |
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On rocks, on seaweeds |
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CHLOROPHYTA |
GREEN ALGAE |
Acrosiphonia spp |
green rope weed |
Blidingia spp |
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Cladophora spp |
branching green filament seaweed |
Codium fragile |
dark green finger seaweed |
Codium setchellii |
dark green spongy seaweed |
Enteromorpha spp |
wrinkled green tube seaweed |
Monostroma spp |
mono-layer sea lettuce |
Prasiola spp |
green guano seaweed |
Rhizoclonum spp |
tangled drk grn filament on mud |
Ulva teaniata |
sea lettuce |
Ulva fenestrata |
perforated sea lettuce |
Ulva spp |
sea lettuce |
Various planktonic, pools |
|
Unbranched filaments |
green sea hair |
unidentified spp |
|
PHAEOPHYTA |
BROWN ALGAE |
Var. encrusting |
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Agarum spp |
solid broad kelp |
Alaria marginata |
short stipe alaria |
Alaria nana |
small alaria |
Alaria spp |
long stipe alarias |
Analipus abietina |
yellow bottle brush |
Coilodesme bulligera |
flat sac |
Colpomenia spp |
globose sac |
Costaria costata |
multi-ribbed searsucker |
Cymothere triplicata |
multi-ribbed smooth blade |
Desmarestia aculeata |
fine branched brown |
Desmarestia ligulata |
broad branched brown |
Egregia menziesii |
feather boa |
Fucus gardneri |
common brown rock weed |
Fucus spp |
hairy pit rock weed |
Haplogloia andersonii |
furry soft branch |
Hedophyllum sessile |
sea cabbage |
Laminaria groenlandica |
flaccid dissected laminaria |
Laminaria saccharina |
sugar kelp |
Laminaria setchellii |
stiff laminaria |
Leathesia difformis |
convoluted yellow sac |
Lessoniopsis littoralis |
knarled tough root weed |
Macrocystis integrifolia |
branching giant kelp |
Melanosiphon intestinalis |
yellow spagetti weed |
Nereocystis luetkeana |
bull kelp |
Ralfsia spp |
yellow-brown thin crust |
Sargassum muticum |
japanese weed |
Scytosiphon lomentaria |
mini-sausage links |
unidentified spp |
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RHODOPHYTA |
RED ALGAE |
Ahnfeltia spp |
thick wiry dark weed |
Antithamnion spp |
red branching fluff |
Bangia vermicularis |
red sea hair |
Bonnemaisonia nootkana |
delicate red feather |
Bossiella spp |
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Calliarthron spp |
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Calliarthron/Bossiella spp |
broad joint corallines |
Callithamnion pikeanum |
dark elongate seamoss |
Callophyllis, spp |
non-veined red leafy |
Ceramium spp |
micro-cross bands |
Corallina vancouveriensis |
bushy cylindrical coralline |
Corallina pilulifera |
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Cumagloia andersoni |
gelatinous spiny fat branches |
Cryptopleura ruprechtiana |
ruffled net vein |
Cryptosiphonia woodii |
dark branching knob tip |
Delessaria decipiens |
veinless leaflet edged |
Endocladia muricata |
thin dark spiny wires |
Erythrophyllum delesserioides |
tattered veined leaf |
Gastroclonium subarticulatum |
narrow neck branching cylinders |
Gelidium coulteri |
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Gelidium purpurescens |
blunt-tip candelabra |
Gigartina corymbifera |
broad turkish towel |
Gigartina exasperata |
elongate turkish towel |
Gigartina spp |
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Gloiopeltis furcata |
small gelatinous sparse branching |
Gracilaria spp |
large gelatinous irregular branching |
Gymnogongrus leptophyllus |
short bifurcated-tip straps |
Gymnogongrus linearis |
long bifurcated-tip straps |
Halosaccion glandiforme |
fine spray sea sacs |
Hildenbrandia occidentalis |
dark red thin crust |
Hymenena spp |
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Iridaea cordata |
purple iridescent broad blades |
Iridaea cornucopiae |
yellow-brown flaring small blades |
Iridaea heterocarpa |
brownish iridescent broad blades |
Iridaea lineare |
purple, rubbery elongate blades |
Laurencia spectabilis |
flat stiff pinnate branches |
Lithothamnion/Lithophyllum, etc |
red calcareous crust |
Mastocarpus papillatus |
small papillate straps |
Membranoptera dimorpha |
veined leaflet edged |
Microcladia borealis |
one sided round branches |
Microcladia coulteri |
alternate sided round branches |
Neorhodomela larix |
black tufted bottle brush |
Nemalion helminthoides |
brown spagetti |
Nienburgia andersoniana |
spiny lateral bladelets |
Odonthalia spp |
dark dense knob-tip branches |
Opuntiella californica |
ovoid & lateral bladelets |
"Petrocelis" stage |
thick tarspots |
Phycodrys setchellii |
veined blades on stolon |
Pikea californica |
pointed-tip candelabra |
Plocamium cartilagineum |
alternate sided outcurved flat branches |
Plocamium violaceum |
alternate sides incurved flat branches |
Polyneura latissima |
smooth net vein |
Polysiphonia spp |
tier-celled fine tufts |
Porphyra spp |
translucent steel grey/purplish green |
Prionitis lanceolata |
small lateral blades on lance |
Prionitis linearis |
wiry spiny tips |
Prionitis lyalli |
lateral lances on lance |
Ptilota spp |
serrate edged blades |
Rhodochorton purpureum |
light red shaded crust |
Rhodoglossum affine |
short dichotomous twisted branches |
Rhodomenia pertusa |
perforated red broad blades |
Sarcodiotheca gaudichaudii |
large one-plane pink branching |
Schizymenia pacifica |
broad soft slippery blades |
Stenogramme interrupta |
broad bifurcate straps |
unidentified filamentous spp |
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unidentified leafy spp |
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unidentified red algae spp |
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unidentified spp |