Species Detail - Wig Wrack or Sea-loch Egg Wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Ascophyllum nodosum
Wig Wrack or Sea-loch Egg Wrack
NHMSYS0021058637
RecommendedWell-formed
Ascophyllum nodosum (Linnaeus) Le Jolis, Ascophyllum nodosum ecad mackaii (Turner) S.M. Baker & M.H. Bohling, Ascophyllum nodosum ecad mackii , Ascophyllum nodosum subsp. mackaii , Ascophyllum nodosum subsp. mackayi (Turner) Borgesen and Jonsson, Ascophyllum nodosum var. mackaii , Ascophyllum nodosum var. mackayi (Turner) Cotton, 1912, Ascophyllum nodosum var. mackayi (Turner) Borgesen and Jonsson, Ascophyllum nodosum var. mackii , Egg wrack , Knotted wrack
N/A
asnod
(Linnaeus) Le Jolis, 1863
Chromist
Species
23
15
11
19/10/2003
13/07/2020
1 January (recorded in 2024)
31 December (recorded in 1913)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Wig Wrack or Sea-loch Egg Wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum), accessed 13 June 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/291170>