Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Division Chlorophyta > Subdivision Chlorophytina > Class Ulvophyceae > Order Ulvales > Family Ulvaceae

Ulva Linnaeus, 1753

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Enteromorpha*	Link, 1820	synonym
*Phycoseris*	Kützing, 1843	synonym

Children

Enteromorpha bayonnensis P.J.L.Dangeard, 1962
Enteromorpha coziana P.J.L.Dangeard, 1962
Enteromorpha fasciculata P.Dangeard, 1949
Enteromorpha hendayensis P.J.L.Dangeard & H.Parriaud, 1960
Enteromorpha musciformis P.J.L.Dangeard, 1962
Enteromorpha robertii-lamii H.Parriaud, 1961
Enteromorpha sancti-joannis P.J.L.Dangeard, 1960
Enteromorpha stipitata P.J.L.Dangeard, 1959
Ulva aragoensis (Bliding) Maggs in Krupnik et al., 2018
Ulva ardreana M.Cormaci, G.Furnari & G.Alongi, 2013
Ulva australis Areschoug, 1854
Ulva blidingii Alongi, Cormaci & G.Furnari, 2014
Ulva chaetomorphoides (Børgesen) H.S.Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, Stanhope & Waaland, 2003
Ulva clathrata (Roth) C.Agardh, 1811
Ulva compressa Linnaeus, 1753
Ulva croatica Alongi, Cormaci & Furnari, 2014
Ulva curvata (Kützing) De Toni, 1889
Ulva diaphana Hudson, 1778
Ulva flexuosa Wulfen, 1803
Ulva gigantea (Kützing) Bliding, 1969
Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus, 1753
Ulva intestinaloides (Koeman & Hoek) H.S.Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, Stanhope & Waaland, 2003
Ulva kylinii (Bliding) H.S.Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, Stanhope & Waaland, 2003
Ulva lactuca Linnaeus, 1753
Ulva linearis P.J.L.Dangeard, 1957
Ulva linza Linnaeus, 1753
Ulva maeotica (Proshkina-Lavrenko) P.M.Tsarenko, 2011
Ulva paradoxa C.Agardh, 1817
Ulva polyclada Kraft, 2007
Ulva prolifera O.F.Müller, 1778
Ulva pseudocurvata Koeman & Hoek, 1981
Ulva pseudolinza (Koeman & Hoek) H.S.Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, Stanhope & Waaland, 2003
Ulva radiata (J.Agardh) H.S.Hayden, Blomster, Maggs, P.C.Silva, Stanhope & Waaland, 2003
Ulva ralfsii (Harvey) Le Jolis, 1863
Ulva rhacodes (Holmes) Papenfuss, 1960
Ulva rigida C.Agardh, 1823
Ulva rotundata Bliding, 1968
Ulva splitiana Alongi, Cormaci & Furnari, 2014
Ulva torta (Mertens) Trevisan, 1842
Ulva uvoides Bory de Saint-Vincent

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: green laver sources: Sheridan, S.; Massin, C. (1998). Guide de la faune et flore sous-marine de Zelande. Commission Scientifique LIFRAS. 320 pp.

French: laitue de mer sources: Sheridan, S.; Massin, C. (1998). Guide de la faune et flore sous-marine de Zelande. Commission Scientifique LIFRAS. 320 pp.

German: Meersalat sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Japanese: アオサ属

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol 1. Salvius, Stockholm.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38
additional source	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Ulva Linnaeus, 1753. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144296