Sea lettuce
Ulva lactuca
Category: Seagrass & Algae
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Chlorophyta
- Class
- Ulvophyceae
- Order
- Ulvales
- Family
- Ulvaceae
- Genus
- Ulva
Where to Find
Found in 50 diving areas across 37 countries and 8 regions.
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 11 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 2 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 34 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 3 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 3 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 25 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 28 records
- Ulleungdo, South Korea - 7 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 6 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 14 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 9 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 2 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 55 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 9 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 14 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 2 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 6 records
- Corsica, France - 12 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 21 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 67 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 41 records
- Sardinia, Italy - 2 records
- Azores, Portugal - 2 records
- Costa Brava, Spain - 13 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 1 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 146 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 3 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 524 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 92 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 120 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 98 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 145 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 36 records
- Pacific Northwest, United States - 923 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 142 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 67 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 18 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 18 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 13 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 69 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 6 records