knotted wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
Category: Seagrass & Algae
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Class
- Phaeophyceae
- Order
- Fucales
- Family
- Fucaceae
- Genus
- Ascophyllum
Where to Find
Found in 14 diving areas across 7 countries and 3 regions.
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 12 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 138 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 97 records
- Azores, Portugal - 3 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 1 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 109 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 384 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 215 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 227 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 164 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 550 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 364 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 456 records