Padina pavonia (L.) J.V.Lamour.

• Region

  West Indies

• Country

  Jamaica

• Locality

  Montego Bay

• Coordinates

  18.4491, -77.9304

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  5851.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates on shore closest to geogr. center of Montego Bay (bay). Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the bay to find linear ext. (5840 m). Used MaNIS Georef. Calculator to find uncertainty (Bounded Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. Collins, Holden, and Setchelf,
1442, Padina pavonia (l.) ouiion.
Gaillon, Diet. d’PIist. Nat., Yol. LOT, p. 371, 1828.
J. G. Agardh, Sp. Alg., Vol. I, p. 113, 1848.
Harvey, Nereis Bor. Am., part 1, p. 104, 1852.
Farlow, Proc. Amer. Acad., Yol. X, p. 356, 1875; Report of U.
S. Fish Commission for 1875, p. 705, 1876.
De Toni, Syll. Alg., Yol. Ill, p. 243, 1895.
Ulva pavonia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, Yol. II, p. 719, 1766.
a.	Beaufort, North Carolina, July, 1907.
W. D. HOYT.
b.	Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1900.
MRS. C. E. PEASE and MISS E. BUTLER.
Though this differs somewhat from the European plant, the
same name is used. It will probably some time be found that P.
pavonia is an aggregate, but at present there are not enough data
for segregation.
P. S. C.
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