Seaweeds of San Mateo County

San Mateo County, located south of San Francisco and north of Santa Cruz, contains a wide variety of tidepools, from sandy places where Gracilaria thrives, to mudstone reef, to fantastic mixes of conglomerate rocks. These are some images of seaweed denizens of this county.

• All 46
• Genus
• Ahnfeltiopsis 1
• Alaria 1
• Analipus 1
• Bossiella 1
• Bryopsis 2
• Calliarthron 1
• Chaetomorpha 1
• Chondracanthus 1
• Codium 2
• Coilodesme 1
• Corallina 1
• Dictryoneurum 1
• Dilsea 1
• Endocladia 1
• Fucus 1
• Gelidium 2
• Gloiosiphonia 1
• Halosaccion 1
• Laminaria 2
• Macrocystis 1
• Melobesia 1
• Microcladia 2
• Pyropia 2
• Sarcodiotheca 1
• Kingdom
• Chromista 8
• Order
• Bangiales 2
• Bryopsidales 4
• Ceramiales 2
• Cladophorales 1
• Corallinales 4
• Ectocarpales 1
• Fucales 1
• Gelidiales 2
• Gigartinales 2
• Laminariales 5
• Ralfsiales 1
• Phylum
• Chlorophyta 5
• Phaeophyra 1
• Phaeophyta 2
• Rhodophyta 13
• Species
• borealis 1
• californica 2
• californicum 1
• canaliculatus 1
• capillaris 1
• corticulans 1
• coulteri 2
• dichotoma 1
• distichus 1
• fragile 1
• gaudichaudii 1
• glandiforme 1
• hypnoides 1
• integrifolia 1
• japonicus 1
• lanceolata 1
• linearis 1
• linum 1
• marginata 1
• mediocris 1
• muricata 1
• perforata 1
• purpurascens 1
• setchellii 2
• sinclairii 1
• tuberculosum 1
• vancouveriensis 1

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