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?
Length of grape caulerpa
What is 15 cm or 6 inches
is long with smooth brown elongated leathery leaves covered by faint dots
What is Attached sargassum
no distinction between individual cells with direct connections of cytoplasm
what is coenocytric
Grows in wiry tangled yellowish brown clumps
What is hypnea
Sailors eye is encrusted with what type of plant on its outside
What is different types of algea
This algea largley disappears in the cold months
Dictyota
Have bitter chemicals to discourage grazing by fish
Iridescent banded algea
grow in this type of water
shallow water
Caulerpa species attach themselves to hard material this many feet deep
The outer margins aren’t as curled in as in ladina spp
What is iridescent banded algea
currents circling this area of ocean bring floating algea to the center of an ocean spanning gyre
What is the North Atlantic
This type is similar in color and form
Hypnea cervicornis
Family of green fleece
What is the family cordiacea
All live attached to hardbottom in shallow water
Dictyota
Red algea absorbs this type of light
Blue light
Graceful redweed has branches similar to a food
What is spaghetti