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 grow
What is shallow seagrass beds?
Shaving brush algae
What algae when growing is firmly anchored by their stiff stalk to a mass of rhizoids?
Padina
Which brown algae is less common and has greenish, brown, fan shaped fronds?
Mediterranean Sea
toxin alien species of caulerpa invaded the tropics invaded which sea?
Graceful Redweed
What type of red algae has greenish to bright red forked branches and branches look like clumps of spaghetti?
Nearshore reef out to 50ft
Where does Greece fleece algae grow?
Dictyota
Which brown algae largely disappears in cold months?
to discourage grazing by fish
Why do iridescent banded algae have bitter chemicals?
Live in calm lagoons as unattached drift algae
Where does graceful redweed grow?
Codiaceace.
Green Fleece is in the what family
Attached sargassum
This brown algae has smooth, brown, elongate, leathery leaves covered by faint dots.
Sugars and protiens for buoyancy
What do the bubble-branchlets of red grapes contain?
Thicket algae
What type of red algae has reddish, flat, and evenly formed branches rooted at a single holdfast.
Common caulerpa and Sailors eye
What two green algae caulerpa species grow on reefs and sea pastures?
Three corned hat algae
Which algae lives attached and float when free due to the air in their fronds?
Blue light
red algae has a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs what color of light?
Red grapes
What type of red algae has numerous bubble-like branchlets