Summary ⁷

Ulva compressa is a species of seaweed in Ulvaceae family that can be found in North America, Mediterranean Sea, and throughout Africa and Australia.

Habitat ⁸

The species can be found in shallow water, tide pools, and also on rock pools and sand.

Habitat ⁹

Depth range based on 25 specimens in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 27.7

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 27.7
 
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Type information ¹⁰

Type locality: "Habitat in Europae mari & tectis maritimis" [Probably Bognor, Sussex, England]

Type information ¹¹

Type locality: Constantinople

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Sarka Martinez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sarka Martinez
2. (c) Rosser1954, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Ulva_compressa_on_red_sandstone_shore.jpg
3. (c) Rosser1954, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Ulva_compressa%2C_Portencross.jpg
4. Pierre-Louis Crouan (1798-1871) & Hippolyte-Marie Crouan (1802-1871), no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrionema_strangulans_Crouan.jpg
5. Agathe Le Gourcuff , no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ulva_compressa_Agathe_Le_Gourcuff.jpg
6. (c) Gary W. Saunders, University of New Brunswick, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.boldsystems.org/archive/image.php?id=bold.org/548240
7. Adapted by Joseph deVeer from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulva_compressa
8. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulva_compressa
9. Public Domain, http://eol.org/data_objects/17383507
10. (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28549316
11. (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28552964

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos

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