Biodiversity & Conservation

Lance-shaped eyelash weed - Calliblepharis jubata - General information

Lance-shaped eyelash weed

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Calliblepharis jubata recorded (dark blue bullet) and expected (light blue bullet) distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

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Calliblepharis jubata is not listed under any importance categories.

General information

Key Icon Researched by: Marisa Sabatini Text page icon Refereed by:

Taxonomy icon Taxonomy

Phylum Rhodophyta Red seaweeds
Class Rhodophyta Red seaweeds
Map icon Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland Calliblepharis jubata has a predominantly western distribution. It has been recorded on the south and west coasts of England, around the coastline of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the west coast of Scotland.
Habitat information icon Habitat information Calliblepharis jubata is epilithic and epiphytic and can grow on other seaweeds, on rocks in pools of the lower eulittoral zone, down into the Laminaria zone. It can also be found in both sheltered and moderately exposed localities and is tolerant of some sand cover.
Text page icon Description Calliblepharis jubata is brownish red in colour. It has a thallus consisting of a branched holdfast that gives rise to an erect frond that expands into a dichotomous or irregularly divided blade. The outline of the frond is variable but it commonly has a cylindrical or very slightly compressed stipe. Its blades are about 6 mm broad and 30 cm long with narrow branches. The branches appear long and tendril like. Long branchlets (proliferations) arise from the blade surface and margins of the branches.

This review can be cited as follows:

Marisa Sabatini 2006. Calliblepharis jubata. Lance-shaped eyelash weed. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 03/09/2010]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesfullreview.php?speciesID=2841>