Editing Chondrus crispus (section)

==Distribution==
''Chondrus crispus'' is commonly found along the shores of Ireland and the coast of Europe including [[Iceland]], the [[Faroe Islands]],<ref name="Börgesen 03">{{cite book |author=F. Börgesen |year=1903 |chapter=Marine Algae of the Faröes |title=Botany of the Faröes based upon Danish investigations Part II (Copenhagen Reprint 1970) |pages=35 |publisher=Linnaeus Press |isbn=978-90-6105-011-7}}</ref> western [[Baltic Sea]] to southern Spain.<ref name="Dixon and Irvine 77">{{cite book|author=P. S. Dixon & L. M. Irvine|title=Seaweeds of the British Isles. Vol. 1 Rhodophyta Part 1: Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales|publisher=[[British Museum (Natural History)]] London|year=1977|isbn=978-0-565-00781-2}}</ref> It is found on the Atlantic coasts of Canada<ref name="Dixon and Irvine 77" /><ref name="Taylor 72">{{cite book |author=W. R. Taylor |year=1972 |title=Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]], Ann Arbor |isbn=978-0-472-04904-2}}</ref> and recorded from California in the United States to Japan.<ref name="Dixon and Irvine 77" /> However, any distribution outside the Northern Atlantic needs to be verified.
There are also other species of the same genus in the Pacific Ocean, for example, ''C. ocellatus'' Holmes, ''C. nipponicus'' Yendo, ''C. yendoi'' Yamada ''et'' Mikami, ''C. pinnulatus'' (Harvey) Okamura and ''C. armatus'' (Harvey) Yamada ''et'' Mikami.<ref name="Hu et al. 2007">Hu, Z., Critchley, A.T., Gao T, Zeng X,  Morrell, S.L. and Delin, D. 2007 Delineation of Chondrus (Gigartinales, Florideophyceae) in China and the origin of C. crisps inferred from molecular data. Marine Biology Research, 3: 145-154</ref>