Fucus vesiculosus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Class
- Phaeophyceae
- Order
- Fucales
- Family
- Fucaceae
- Genus
- Fucus
- Species
- Fucus vesiculosus
- Scientific Name
- Fucus vesiculosus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Fucus vesiculosus
Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common names bladderwrack, black tang, rockweed, sea grapes, bladder fucus, sea oak, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus and rock wrack, is a brown alga a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1811, and was used extensively to treat goitre.
...Fucus vesiculosus in languages:
- Bokmål
- blæretang
- Czech
- chaluha bublinatá
- Danish
- Blæretang
- Dutch
- Blaaswier
- English
- bladder wrack
- Estonian
- Põisadru
- Finnish
- rakkolevä
- Finnish
- rakkohauru
- French
- Fucus vésiculeux
- German
- Blasentang
- Latvian
- Pūšļu fuks
- Lithuanian
- Pūslėtasis guveinis
- Polish
- Morszczyn pęcherzykowaty
- Portuguese
- Bodelha
- Russian
- Фукус пузырчатый
- Swedish
- Blåstång
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