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University of Massachusetts - Amherst (MASS)

Contacts: Tristram Seidler, Curator, tseidler@bio.umass.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4f927c91-401d-4ff4-8d6a-eb31c54c5099
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/MASS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 8,788 specimen records
  • 8,621 (98%) georeferenced
  • 8,788 (100%) with images (8,788 total images)
  • 8,621 (98%) identified to species
  • 138 families
  • 431 genera
  • 1,156 species
  • 1,206 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acrothrix (15)
  • Aegira (2)
  • Ascocyclus (2)
  • Asperococcus (14)
  • Chordaria (136)
  • Cladosiphon (1)
  • Climacosorus (1)
  • Coelocladia (3)
  • Coilodesme (8)
  • Delamarea (4)
  • Desmotrichum (10)
  • Dictyosiphon (67)
  • Elachista (56)
  • Endodictyon (1)
  • Entonema (1)
  • Eudesme (21)
  • Hecatonema (4)
  • Isthmoplea (8)
  • Laminariocolax (1)
  • Leathesia (16)
  • Leptonema (1)
  • Leptonematella (1)
  • Litosiphon (5)
  • Melanosiphon (2)
  • Mesogloia (2)
  • Microspongium (1)
  • Myriactis (1)
  • Myriactula (1)
  • Myriocladia (2)
  • Myrionema (6)
  • Myriotrichia (4)
  • Papenfussiella (7)
  • Phaeostroma (7)
  • Phloeospora (1)
  • Platysiphon (8)
  • Punctaria (26)
  • Soranthera (5)
  • Sorocarpus (1)
  • Sphaerotrichia (18)
  • Stictyosiphon (105)
  • Stilophora (6)
  • Streblonema (2)
  • Striaria (5)
  • Ulonema (1)