Species Profiles
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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