Description: Frond to 10 cms long, leafy and fan-shaped without a mid-rib and with few divisions. The distal edge is inrolled and appearing banded.

Habitat: Lower littoral rock pools and sublittoral.

Distribution: Southern shores of Ireland and England and the Channel Islands. Europe: Mediterranean, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic coasts of Spain and France. Further afield: Salvage Islands, Canary Islands, Mauritania, Senegal, Gabon, Zaire, Cape Verde Islands, Angola, Ascension and St Helena.

Key Identification Features:

• The fan-shaped thallus is quite peculiar to the species.

Distribution Map from NBN: Padina pavonica at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Padina pavonica at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Padina pavonica at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy, 1960. AphiaID: 145385.

Classification: Biota; Chromista; Harosa; Heterokonta; Ochrophyta; Phaeophyceae; Dictyotophycidae; Dictyotales; Dictyotaceae; Zonarieae; Padina