Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in sun.
What is cactus algae?
Turns dark brown on beach.
What is pelagic sargassum?
Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish
What is iridescent-banded algae?
Where branching coralline algae grows?
What is shallow seagrass beds?
Grace Caulerpa, Common Caulerpa, Sailors Eye, Green Fleece, Cactus Shaving Brush Algae.
What are types of green algae?
Largely disappear in cold months.
They are used as seafood and are an important part of an Asian-food lover’s diet.
Why is red algae farmed?
This species of red algae has brown-red branches with stiff, pointed branchlets in whorls of three.
What is red spineweed?
In the water it forms a domed clump.
What is Green Fleece?
Has greenish-brown, fan-shaped fronds with an in-rolled outer margin.
What is Padina?
The crushed skeletons of thicket algae and branching coralline algae.
What are sources of beach sand?
What is shallow water?
Live on shallow sea grass beds and sand flats.
What habitat do green fleece live in?
Extremely abundant in certain areas of the Florida Keys.
Where is Dictyota found?
Invaded the Mediterranean Sea and is causing big ecological troubles.
What is Caulerpa Taxifolia?
6 in. have reddish, flat, evenly forked branches rooted at a single holdfast.
What is thicket algae?
Yellow rhizomes with green branches bearing stubby branchlets that end in swollen tips.
What is a grape Caulerpa?
Grows anchored to hard bottom in waters out to 50ft.
What is the habitat of sargassum?
Provides a habitat life-raft for hundreds of species of animals.
What does sargassum do?
Grow in calm lagoons and often live as unattached drift algae.
What is graceful seaweed?