Species
Egregia menziesii (Feather boa kelp)
Egregia menziesii. Photo: (c) tamjam, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Egregia menziesii is a species of kelp known commonly as feather boa kelp. It is native to the coastline of western North America from Alaska to Baja California, where it is a common kelp of the intertidal zone. It is dark brown in color, shiny and bumpy in texture, and may reach over five meters long. It grows a branching stipe from a thick holdfast. It bears long, flat, straplike fronds lined with small blades each…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Chromista (Kelp, diatoms, and allies)
- Phylum: Ochrophyta
- Class: Phaeophyceae (Brown algae)
- Subclass: Fucophycidae
- Order: Laminariales (Kelps)
- Family: Lessoniaceae
- Genus: Egregia
- Species: Egregia menziesii (Feather boa kelp)
- Genus: Egregia
- Family: Lessoniaceae
- Order: Laminariales (Kelps)
- Subclass: Fucophycidae
- Class: Phaeophyceae (Brown algae)
- Phylum: Ochrophyta
- Kingdom: Chromista (Kelp, diatoms, and allies)
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