Species Detail - Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland.".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Saccharina latissima
Sugar Kelp
Laminaria saccharina, Poor Man’s Weather Glass, Sea Belt
N/A
salat
(Linnaeus)
alga
Species
146
70
38
31/05/1993
13/10/1996
1 January (recorded in 1985)
31 December (recorded in 1869)
Trinity College, Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland., National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/258/Species/6814>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)