Saccharina

Saccharina is a genus of 20 species of Phaeophyceae (brown algae). It is found in the north Atlantic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean at depths from 8 m to 30 m (exceptionally to 120 m in the warmer waters of the Mediterranean Sea and off Brazil).^[1]

The commercially important species Saccharina japonica (Laminaria japonica) is cultivated for Kombu; an important food flavouring from Japan.^[2]

Species

The following is a list of the 20 species of Saccharina:^[3]^[4]

Saccharina angustata (Kjellman) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina bongardiana (Postels & Ruprecht) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I. Hansen
Saccharina cichorioides (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina coriacea (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina crassifolia (Postels & Ruprecht) Kuntze
Saccharina dentigera (Kjellman) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina groenlandica (Rosenvinge) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina gurjanovae (A.D. Zinova) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I. Hansen
Saccharina gyrata (Kjellman) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina japonica (J.E. Areschoug) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina kurilensis C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina longicruris (Bachelot de la Pylaie) Kuntze
Saccharina longipedales (Okamura) C.E. Lane, C. Maves, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina longissima (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina ochotensis (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina religiosa (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina sculpera (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Saccharina sessilis (C. Agardh) Kuntze
Saccharina yendoana (Miyabe) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders

^ M. D. Guiry. "Kelps: Laminaria and Saccharina". www.seaweed.ie. http://www.seaweed.ie/algae/laminaria.lasso.
^ Laminaria seafarming in China FAO [1]
^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Saccharina". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=5632.
^ Lane, C.E.; C. Mayes; L.D. Druehl; & G.W. Saunders (2006). "A multi-gene molecular investigation of the kelp (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) supports substantial taxonomic re-organization". Journal of Phycology 42 (2): 493–512. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00204.x.