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Long Laver
Porphyra sp.
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North Pacific Distribution:
Bering Sea and Aleutian Is. to northern Southeast Alaska; Russia.
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Bangiophyceae
Order:
Bangiales
Family:
Bangiaceae
Former Scientific Names:
P. pseudolinearis
Description: Thallus is a linear blade, one cell layer thick, reaching about 40 cm (16 in) long and 2 cm (0.75 in) wide, usually reddish pink or reddish brown. Male cells are in whitish margins; fertilized female cells are in hieroglyph-like streaks across distal ends of separate female plants. Habitat: occurs on low intertidal rock in spring to early summer. In western Aleutians, this species is found in the high to mid intertidal, where it is more brownish in color.
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