UC specimens and range limits for Salishia firma

• Blue markers: specimen records
• Yellow marker: type locality, if present
• Red markers: endpoints of range from literature

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Illustration from DeCew's Guide to the Seaweeds of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California

Callophyllis firma (Kyl.) R. Norr.

Pugetia firma Kylin 1941: 15. Callophyllis firma (Kyl.) R. Norris 1957: 287; Abbott & Norris 1965: 73.

Thalli with blades broad and circular, simple, dissected, lobed, or peltate, 4-10(20) cm diam.; intertidal specimens deep rose, crisp, brittle, the large cells of medulla visible with unaided eye; subtidal specimens bluish red, slippery, tough, no medullary cells visible in surface view; margins at end of growing season irregularly eroded, often raised; gonimoblasts scattered over surface.

Frequent, saxicolous, low intertidal to subtidal (30 m), N. Br. Columbia to Pta. Santo Tomas, Baja Calif. Type locality: Pt. Pinos (Pacific Grove), Calif.

Excerpt from Abbott, I. A., & Hollenberg, G. J. (1976). Marine algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. xii [xiii] + 827 pp., 701 figs.