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Red alga

Lithophyllum tortuosum

Description:

"A calcareous crusts algae that grows as whitish-pink erect thalli to 3 cm high. Form a thick crust, firmly attached to rocks, which raise numerous small excrescences, laminar, circumvented and anastomosed."

Habitat:

tidal rocky shore Cabo Raso, Cascais

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mendes.madalena
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mendes.madalena

Portugal

Spotted on Mar 20, 2015
Submitted on Mar 31, 2015

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