Fucus ceranoides

Fucus ceranoides
Scientific classification
(unranked): SAR
Superphylum: Heterokonta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Fucales
Family: Fucaceae
Genus: Fucus
Species: F. ceranoides
Binomial name
Fucus ceranoides
L.

Fucus ceranoides is a species of brown algae found in the littoral zone of the sea shore.[1]

Description

Fucus ceranoides is a species similar to other species of Fucus. It is linear to about 1 cm wide and is attached by a discoid holdfast. The branches grow to a length of 60 cm and show a clear midrib. Its margin is entire and it differs from Fucus serratus in not having a serrated edge and unlike Fucus vesiculosus it does not have air vesicles, however irregular swellings gives it a resemblance to F. vesiculosus. Fucus spiralis has spirally twisted fronds.[2][3]

Distribution

On the shores of Ireland and Great Britain.[3]

Habitat

On rocky shores in the littoral generally where fresh water flows into the sea, brackish water in sheltered bays.[2][4]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, J.R. 1964. The Ecology of Rocky Shores. The English Universities Press Ltd.
  2. 1 2 Newton, L. 1931. A Handbook of the British Seaweeds. British Museum, London
  3. 1 2 Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. British Phycological Society ISBN 0 9527115 16
  4. ↑ Morton, O. 2003. The marine macroalgae of County Donegal, Ireland. Bull. Ir. biogeog. Soc. 27: 3 - 164


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