Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Biliphyta > Division Rhodophyta > Subdivision Eurhodophytina > Class Florideophyceae > Subclass Ahnfeltiophycidae > Order Ahnfeltiales > Family Ahnfeltiaceae > Genus Ahnfeltia

Ahnfeltia plicata (Hudson) E.M.Fries, 1836

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ahnfeltia*	Fries, 1836	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Fucus plicatus*	Hudson, 1762	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: horntang sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: ijzerdraadwier sources: Coppejans, E. (1998). Flora van de Noord-Franse en Belgische zeewieren [Marine algae of northern France and Belgium]. Nationale Plantentuin van België: Meise, Belgium. ISBN 90-72619-41-2. 462 pp.

English: red seaweed sources: MarLIN. (2006). BIOTIC - Biological Traits Information Catalogue. Marine Life Information Network. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

German: Faltentang sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Japanese: イタニグサ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: sjøris sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: sjøris sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: anfeltka złożona sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: havsris

Literature

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
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Check list of Antarctic and Subantarctic Seaweeds by Wiencke C & Clayton MN, 2002.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Sears, J.R. (ed.). 1998. NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America from Long Island Sound to the Strait of Belle Isle. Northeast Algal Society. 163 p.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	South, G. R.;Tittley, I. (1986). A checklist and distributional index of the benthic marine algae of the North Atlantic Ocean. untsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 1-76.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

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). Ahnfeltia plicata (Hudson) E.M.Fries, 1836. 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:144422