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San Diego Natural History Museum - Algae (SD)

Contacts: Layla Aerne Hains, Collections Manager, laerne@sdnhm.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 032a7dfb-9b11-4248-bde0-624b12aa9203
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/SD_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 6,787 specimen records
  • 6,587 (97%) georeferenced
  • 6,785 (100%) with images (6,806 total images)
  • 6,093 (90%) identified to species
  • 147 families
  • 468 genera
  • 1,217 species
  • 1,256 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthophora (22)
  • Bostrychia (13)
  • Bryocladia (1)
  • Bryothamnion (3)
  • Chondria (72)
  • Chondriopsis (2)
  • Chondrophycus (10)
  • Digenea (13)
  • Enantiocladia (1)
  • Erythrocystis (10)
  • Exophyllum (1)
  • Halopithys (1)
  • Harveyella (1)
  • Herposiphonia (15)
  • Heterodasya (2)
  • Janczewskia (4)
  • Laurencia (152)
  • Lophocladia (1)
  • Lophosiphonia (2)
  • Melanamansia (3)
  • Murrayella (5)
  • Neorhodomela (11)
  • Neosiphonia (24)
  • Neurymenia (1)
  • Odonthalia (19)
  • Ophidocladus (3)
  • Osmundea (60)
  • Pachychaeta (1)
  • Palisada (19)
  • Polysiphonia (98)
  • Pterochondria (27)
  • Pterosiphonia (66)
  • Rhodomela (5)
  • Tolypiocladia (1)
  • Vertebrata (1)