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Brown University - Algae (BRU)

Contacts: Rebecca Kartzinel, rebecca_kartzinel@brown.edu
Homepage: http://www.brown.edu/research/projects/herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3cf3dd5b-3c1e-4576-8df7-97e5738c4a42
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/BRU_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 5,279 specimen records
  • 4,100 (78%) georeferenced
  • 5,275 (100%) with images (5,391 total images)
  • 5,007 (95%) identified to species
  • 212 families
  • 585 genera
  • 2,291 species
  • 2,510 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthophora (4)
  • Alsidium (2)
  • Amansia (4)
  • Bostrychia (17)
  • Bryothamnion (3)
  • Chondria (37)
  • Choreocolax (1)
  • Dictyomenia (2)
  • Digenea (2)
  • Harveyella (1)
  • Herposiphonia (5)
  • Janczewskia (5)
  • Jeannerettia (1)
  • Kuetzingia (1)
  • Laurencia (87)
  • Lenormandia (2)
  • Lophosiphonia (6)
  • Murrayella (2)
  • Odonthalia (14)
  • Pollexfenia (3)
  • Polyphacum (1)
  • Polysiphonia (218)
  • Polyzonia (2)
  • Pterosiphonia (11)
  • Rhodomela (29)
  • Ricardia (1)
  • Streblocladia (1)
  • Vidalia (1)
  • Wrightiella (2)