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Saccharina

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Saccharina is a genus of 24 species of Phaeophyceae (brown algae). It is found in the north Atlantic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean at depths from 8 m to 30 m (exceptionally to 120 m in the warmer waters of the Mediterranean Sea and off Brazil).

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GENUS

  1. KingdomChromista
  2. PhylumOchrophyta
  3. ClassPhaeophyceae
  4. OrderLaminariales
  5. FamilyLaminariaceae
Habitatmarine

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
86
With media
63
Family
Laminariaceae
Collections
MICH, US
Recorded in
Canada, United States, Russian Federation, Japan, Russia

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Saccharina is a genus of 24 species of Phaeophyceae (brown algae). It is found in the north Atlantic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean at depths from 8 m to 30 m (exceptionally to 120 m in the warmer waters of the Mediterranean Sea and off Brazil).

The commercially important species Saccharina japonica (Laminaria japonica) is cultivated as kombu, a popular food in Japan.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saccharina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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