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Species Profiles --> Caulerpa, Mediterranean clone

Scientific name: Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agandh

Common names: Caulerpa, Mediterranean clone; Killer algae

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Federal Government

Caulerpa taxifolia [Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)]
Taxonomy

Caulerpa taxifolia - INVADERS Database [U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and University of Montana-Missoula]
Legal Aspects

Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agandh - Mediterranean clone of Caulerpa (Federal Noxious Weed List) [U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine]
Taxonomy

Prevention program for the Mediterranean Strain of Caulerpa taxifolia [Sandra M. Keppner of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Russell T. Caplen of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service]
Identification/Description; Impacts; Distribution; Dispersion; Controls

Caulerpa taxifolia Fact Sheet [NOAA, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Illustrations; Introduction History; Habitat; Distribution; Dispersion; Controls

Noxious Algae Found in Southern California Coastal Waters [NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service - Southwest Region]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Impacts; Habitat; Distribution; Dispersion; Controls; Special Notes: Links to controls and contacts

State Government

Caulerpa Information [Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Aquaculture - Florida Aquatic Invasive Species]
Controls; Impacts

Wetlands Managers Group Report (10/20/00), Information Item: Invasion of Caulerpa taxifolia to Southern California [California Coastal Conservancy, Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project]
Identification/Description; Controls; Research

Caulerpa taxifolia [California Water Quality Control Board - San Diego, California Environmental Protection Agency]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Impacts; Dispersion;Monitoring; Special Note: Links to Fact Sheet and contacts

University/Academic

Killer Algae Found! [California Sea Grant]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Impacts; Habitat; Distribution; Dispersion

Caulerpa taxifolia [University of Hawaii, Botany Department]
Illustrations

International

Caulerpa taxifolia Modeling and Simulation Program - Mediterranean Sea [Institut Superieur d'Informatique de Modelisation et de leurs Applications (ISIMA)]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Distribution (Mediterranean Sea)

Caulerpa taxifolia research paper [Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg/Austria]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Illustrations; Introduction History; Impacts; Habitat; Distribution; Dispersion; Controls; Research; Special Note: References

Study of the invasive green alga Caulerpa taxifolia [University of Ulm, Germany]
Introduction History; Special Note: References

Caulerpa taxifolia (aquatic plant) - ISSG Global Invasive Species Database [The World Conservation Union, Invasive Species Specialist Group]
Taxonomy; Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Impacts; Life Cycle; Habitat; Distribution; Controls

Organizations

Pest Alert: Caulerpa taxifolia [North American Plant Protection Organization]
Taxonomy; Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Distribution; Dispersion

Deep Sea Invasion, Original PBS Broadcast Date: April 1, 2003 [PBS, NOVA]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History

The "Killer" Algae [San Diego Project Pacific]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History

Ultimate Sea Weed Loose in America (7/15/00) [Science News Online]
Identification/Description; Photographs; Introduction History; Controls

Excerpt from book "Killer Algae" by Alexandre Meinesz
Photographs; Introduction History; Special Note: Excerpted from pages xi-xiv, 95-96 of KILLER ALGAE by Alexandre Meinesz, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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