Ulva intestinalis

Ulva intestinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: UTC clade
Order: Ulvales
Family: Ulvaceae
Genus: Ulva
Species:
U. intestinalis
Binomial name
Ulva intestinalis
Synonyms
  • Enteromorpha intestinalis
Large green lumps of Ulva intestinalis floating among other brown algae in Brofjorden

Ulva intestinalis is a green alga in the family Ulvaceae, known by the common names sea lettuce, green bait weed, gutweed,[1] and grass kelp.[2] Until they were reclassified by genetic work completed in the early 2000s, the tubular members of the sea lettuce genus Ulva were placed in the genus Enteromorpha.[3]

  1. ^ "Gutweed". www.kscience.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  2. ^ Grass-kelp, Gutweed Archived 2015-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Guiry, M.D., John, D.M., Rindi, F. and McCarthy, T.K. (Eds) 2007. New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 6: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. p. 23. Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 978-1904890-31-7