Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile

Yale University Herbarium (YPM-YU)

Contacts: Patrick W. Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 June 2017
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://macroalgae.org/portal/content/dwca/YPM-YU_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 11,835 specimen records
  • 9,619 (81%) georeferenced
  • 11,791 (100%) with images (12,123 total images)
  • 10,213 (86%) identified to species
  • 212 families
  • 668 genera
  • 2,774 species
  • 2,972 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthophora (22)
  • Alsidium (7)
  • Amansia (13)
  • Atomaria (2)
  • Bostrychia (35)
  • Bryothamnion (8)
  • Chondria (98)
  • Chondriopsis (7)
  • Choreocolax (1)
  • Cladhymenia (3)
  • Cliftonaea (1)
  • Dictyomenia (4)
  • Digenea (12)
  • Erythrocystis (1)
  • Harveyella (1)
  • Herposiphonia (14)
  • Heterodasya (1)
  • Janczewskia (5)
  • Jeannerettia (2)
  • Laurencia (153)
  • Lenormandia (3)
  • Lophosiphonia (10)
  • Murrayella (3)
  • Neorhodomela (1)
  • Neosiphonia (1)
  • Neurymenia (3)
  • Odonthalia (33)
  • Osmundea (1)
  • Palisada (1)
  • Pollexfenia (3)
  • Polyphacum (2)
  • Polysiphonia (585)
  • Polyzonia (6)
  • Pterosiphonia (13)
  • Rhodomela (96)
  • Ricardia (2)
  • Rytiphlaea (13)
  • Streblocladia (1)
  • Vidalia (10)
  • Wrightiella (2)