Species Detail - Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "iNaturalist Marine Species Records for 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
18
14
9
12/08/2008
02/11/2021
1 January (recorded in 1985)
31 December (recorded in 1869)
iNaturalist, iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/387/Species/6814>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)