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Some English names include edible kelp, bull kelp, bullwhip kelp, ribbon kelp, bladder wrack, and variations of these names. [2] Due to the English name, bull kelp can be confused with southern bull kelps, which are found in the Southern Hemisphere. [3] [4] Nereocystis luetkeana forms thick beds on subtidal rocks, and is an important part of ...
When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first. In biological nomenclature , organisms receive scientific names , which are formally in Latin , but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas.
Laminariaceae is a family of brown algal seaweeds, many genera of which are popularly called "kelp". The table indicates the genera within this family. [ 1 ] The family includes the largest known seaweeds: Nereocystis and Macrocystis .
This "kelp highway hypothesis" suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that coastal kelp forests reduced wave ...
Saccharina latissima is a brown alga (class Phaeophyceae), of the family Laminariaceae.It is known by the common names sugar kelp, [2] sea belt, [3] and Devil's apron, [4] and is one of the species known to Japanese cuisine as kombu. [5]
Kombu is a loanword from Japanese.. In Old Japanese, edible seaweed was generically called "me" (cf. wakame, arame) and kanji such as "軍布", [3] 海藻 [4] or "和布" [5] were applied to transcribe the word.
Alaria is a genus of highly variable brown algae, and a member of the order Laminariales, more commonly known as kelp. It has mature sporophytes as small as 15 centimetres (5.9 in) and as large at 15 metres (49 ft) in length. [2] It does not show definite air-floats. [5]
Pterygophora californica is a large species of kelp, commonly known as stalked kelp. It is the only species in its genus Pterygophora (Ruprecht, 1852). [2] It grows in shallow water on the Pacific coast of North America where it forms part of a biodiverse community in a "kelp forest". It is sometimes also referred to as woody-stemmed kelp ...