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Genus (i.e. Fucus)
Species (i.e. Gardneri)
Common Name (i.e. Rock Weed)
Phylum (i.e. Ochrophyta)
All of the above
Dwarf Rockweed
Fucus distichus (dwarf form)
Authority:
Linnaeus
North Pacific Distribution:
Cook Inlet and Kodiak Island, Alaska, to British Columbia
Phylum:
Ochrophyta
Class:
Phaeophyceae
Order:
Fucales
Family:
Fucaceae
Former Scientific Names:
mis identified as Fucus. cottoni, F. muscoides, F. sp.

Comments:
After genetic analysis it was discovered this is acutally a dwarf form of Fucus distichus.

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