Saccharina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Class
- Phaeophyceae
- Order
- Laminariales
- Family
- Laminariaceae
- Genus
- Saccharina
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Saccharina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Saccharina
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.
...Saccharina in languages:
- Chinese
- 糖海帶屬
- Finnish
- lapakelpit
- Lithuanian
- Cukradumblis
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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