Species Detail - Wig Wrack or Sea-loch Egg Wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Coastal and Marine Species Database".
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
1
1
1
05/08/2014
05/08/2014
1 January (recorded in 2024)
31 December (recorded in 1913)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Coastal and Marine Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Wig Wrack or Sea-loch Egg Wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum), accessed 28 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/197/Species/291170>