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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Fucales |
| Family: | Fucaceae |
| Genus: | Ascophyllum Stackhouse, 1809 |
| Species: | A. nodosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Ascophyllum nodosum | |
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| Distribution | |
Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae. Its common names include knotted wrack, egg wrack, feamainn bhuí, rockweed, knotted kelp and Norwegian kelp. It grows only in the northern Atlantic Ocean, along the north-western coast of Europe (from the White Sea to Portugal) including east Greenland[1] and the north-eastern coast of North America. Its range further south of these latitudes is limited by warmer ocean waters.[2] It dominates the intertidal zone.[3][4] Ascophyllum nodosum has been used numerous times in scientific research and has even been found to benefit humans through consumption.[5]
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- ^ W. R. Taylor (1962). Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-04904-2.
- ^ O. Morton (2003). "The marine macroalgae of County Donegal, Ireland". Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society. 27: 3–164.
- ^ O. Morton (1994). Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Ulster Museum, Belfast. ISBN 978-0-900761-28-7.
- ^ Fitton, Janet Helen (2011). "Therapies from fucoidan; multifunctional marine polymers". Marine Drugs. 9 (10): 1731–1760. doi:10.3390/md9101731. ISSN 1660-3397. PMC 3210604. PMID 22072995.