genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

seaweed Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of '' Rhodophyta'' (red), ''Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ...

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

thalli Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms were ...

palisade A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a fence or defensive wall made from iron or wooden stakes, or tree trunks, and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisades can form a stockade. Etymology ''Palisade' ...

velvet Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word ''velvety'' means ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Codium adhaerens ''Codium'' is a genus of seaweed in the Chlorophyta of the order Bryopsidales. Paul Silva was an expert on the genus ''Codium'' taxonomy at the University of California, Berkeley. There are about 50 species worldwide. Description The genus has ...

Tory Island Tory Island, or simply Tory (officially known by its Irish name ''Toraigh''),Toraigh/Tory Island

County Donegal County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...

. In 1837 it was found in Church Bay in

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

,Morton,O. 1994. ''Marine Algae of Northern Ireland.'' Ulster Museum. but has not been found there since. * ''

Codium adhaerens ''Codium'' is a genus of seaweed in the Chlorophyta of the order Bryopsidales. Paul Silva was an expert on the genus ''Codium'' taxonomy at the University of California, Berkeley. There are about 50 species worldwide. Description The genus has ...

'' C.Agardh * ''

Codium bursa ''Codium bursa'' is a green marine algae of medium size. Description ''Codium bursa'' is a marine alga growing to 30 cm across. It generally appears as a spongy sphere of utricles which at the surface form a cortex. It is composed of loos ...

'' ( Linnaeus) C.Agardh - has been found in

Mulroy Bay Mulroy Bay ( ga, Cuan na Maoil Ruaidh) is a relatively small bay / sea loch on the north coast of County Donegal, Ireland. Mulroy Bay is the most convoluted of the marine inlets in north-west Ireland. It is approximately 12 km long in a ...

in County Donegal in 1977 (specimen in the

Ulster Museum The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasure ...

) and 1988. There is an old record of it from "near

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

" between 1793 and 1810. * ''

Codium fragile ''Codium fragile'', known commonly as green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers,
Intertidal ...

'' ( Suringar) Hariot ** ''Codium fragile'' subsp. ''atlanticum'' ( A. Cotton) Silva * ''

Codium tomentosum ''Codium tomentosum'' is a species of green seaweed in the family Codiaceae. Its common names include velvet horn and spongeweed. Description The holdfast of ''C. tomentosum'' is saucer-shaped and has closely woven strands giving it a unif ...

'' Stackhouse * '' Codium vermilara'' ( Olivi) Delle Chiaje There are other species of "doubtful validity":- '' Codium amphibium'' is included in William Henry Harvey's '' Phycologia Britannica'' Pl.xxxv. and noted as: "spreading in patches of great extent along the edge of the sea, over the surface of a turf-

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; a ...

which meets the shore at Roundstone Bay" (Ireland).

Worldwide

* '' Codium arabicum'' Kütz. -

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

* '' Codium arenicola'' Chacana & P.C.Silva - Australia * '' Codium australasicum'' P.C.Silva - Australia * '' Codium bulbopilum'' Setch. - Australia * '' Codium capitulatum'' P.C.Silva &

Womersley Womersley is a village in the Selby District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The parish population at the 2011 census (including Stapleton and Walden Stubbs) was 515. It is near the towns of Selby, Askern and Pontefract. It is clos ...

- Australia * '' Codium convolutum'' (Dellow) P.C.Silva -

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

* '' Codium cuneatum'' S. & G. -

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

(

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

) * '' Codium duthiae'' Silva - Australia,

Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...

, and

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

* '' Codium dwarkense'' Børgesen - Australia *'' Codium edule -'' Indo-Pacific, including Hawaii * '' Codium extricatum'' Silva - Cape Agulhas to southern

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

* ''

Codium fragile ''Codium fragile'', known commonly as green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers,
Intertidal ...

'' ( Suringar) Hariot -

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

(

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

) ** ''Codium fragile'' Sui song - (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

) Food and food products from seaweeds

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, American Pacific from

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

to

Cape Horn Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez ...

,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

,

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,

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,

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

, and

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

** ''Codium fragile'' subsp. ''capense'' Silva - South Africa * '' Codium galeatum'' J.Agardh - Australia * ''

Codium geppiorum ''Codium geppiorum'' is a species of seaweed in the '' Codiaceae'' family. The procumbent and densely branched thallus forms patches that are about wide that are attached to sandy substrates with tufts of rhizoids. It epilithic and is found i ...

'' O.C.Schmidt - Australia and

Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...

South Africa * '' Codium harveyi'' P.C.Silva - Australia * '' Codium hubbsii'' Daws. - California (U.S.A.) * '' Codium intertextum''

Collins Collins may refer to: People Surname Given name * Collins O. Bright (1917–?), Sierra Leonean diplomat * Collins Chabane (1960–2015), South African Minister of Public Service and Administration * Collins Cheboi (born 1987), Kenyan middle- ...

& Hervey * '' Codium isthmocladum''

Vickers Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. It was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by Edward Vickers and his father-in-law, and soon became famous for casting church bells. The company went public in 18 ...

* '' Codium johnstonei'' Silva - California (U.S.A.) * '' Codium laminarioides'' Harv. - Australia * '' Codium lucasii'' Setchell - Australia, Tasmania * ''

Codium mamillosum ''Codium mamillosum'' is a species of seaweed in the ''Codiaceae'' family. The medium green globose thallus has a diameter of around that is attached to a tuft of rhizoids. It is found from low tidal areas to a depth of sublittoral zone in m ...

'' Harv. - Australia * '' Codium muelleri'' Kütz. - Australia * ''

Codium perriniae ''Codium perriniae'' is a species of seaweed in the '' Codiaceae'' family. The firm medium green thallus is usually around tall and across. It is found in the upper sublittoral zone in rock pools and rock shelves rough to moderate water coas ...

'' A.H.S.Lucas - Australia * '' Codium pomoides'' J.Agardh - Australia * '' Codium setchellii'' Gardn. - California (U.S.A.) * '' Codium silvae''

Womersley Womersley is a village in the Selby District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The parish population at the 2011 census (including Stapleton and Walden Stubbs) was 515. It is near the towns of Selby, Askern and Pontefract. It is clos ...

- Australia * '' Codium spinescens'' P.C.Silva &

Womersley Womersley is a village in the Selby District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The parish population at the 2011 census (including Stapleton and Walden Stubbs) was 515. It is near the towns of Selby, Askern and Pontefract. It is clos ...

- Australia * ''

Codium spongiosum ''Codium spongiosum'' is a species of seaweed in the family Codiaceae. The light-green thallus has an applanate to pulvinate habit and is usually around across and thick. It has irregular lobes and moderately firm while alive becoming more sp ...

'' Harv. - Australia * '' Codium strangulatum'' Chacana & P.C.Silva - Australia * '' Codium taylorii'' Silva - Australia * '' Codium repens'' ( P.Crouan & H.Crouan)

Vickers Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. It was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by Edward Vickers and his father-in-law, and soon became famous for casting church bells. The company went public in 18 ...

* '' Codium tenue'' ( Kütz.) Kütz. - Australia * ''

Codium tomentosum ''Codium tomentosum'' is a species of green seaweed in the family Codiaceae. Its common names include velvet horn and spongeweed. Description The holdfast of ''C. tomentosum'' is saucer-shaped and has closely woven strands giving it a unif ...

'' Stackh. - Australia

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