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The first occurrence of Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt in the Plymouth area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. T. Boalch
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
G. W. Potts
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth

Extract

On 11 August 1976 an observant yachtsman noted an unfamiliar alga between Misery Point and Warren Point at the mouth of the River Yealm. Suspecting that it might be ‘Japweed’ he collected a piece and took it to Mr B. W. P. Sparrow of the International Marine Coatings Laboratory who contacted the Marine Biological Association, where Dr Boalch confirmed that it was a part of a fertile plant of Sargassum muticum, the first to be recorded from the Plymouth area (see Fig. 1).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1977

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