#bryopsidales

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Undersea Liverwort

This is not actually a liverwort at all, but a type of green algae. I believe Codium fragile, “Dead man’s fingers” is the species.

Codium fragile

15/06/22

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Let’s play a game called ‘Spot the Ghost Pipefish’

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Larkum AWD, Salih A, Kühl M (2011) Rapid Mass Movement of Chloroplasts during Segment Formation of the Calcifying Siphonalean Green Alga, Halimeda macroloba. PLoS ONE 6(7): e20841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020841

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Codium fragile, another invasive green macroalgae.

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various Codium.

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#1051 - Codium sp. - Dead Man’s Fingers

I don’t know which species of Codium, since there are several with a similar long, branching form. Common names for these ones include green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers, forked felt-alga, stag seaweed,sponge seaweed,green sponge,green fleece, and oyster thief. As with the velvet golf ball, it’s all one multinucleate cell, up to a meter long.

Falcon, Perth