Coralline Algae

that and also the other spotting ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/788... ) needs clarification, Maybe i have made AGAIN a mistake.
-- back then i was confused, because you set this as category fungi, and spoke faster than i sometimes think. The last days i was searching for the references, in which i read "sea slime/molds" ( i have looked {not really read} and downloaded many "pdf's"-books about "mycology" the last weeks) and i didn't find that piece of writing back, i mean it was only a few lines, Or maybe i misread/confused it with slime molds in "melt-WATETR" . (in "fungi/mushrooms"-i'm just 3-4 years intrested/busy, in "lichen" 1-2 month, and "slime molds" do i know already (as lichen too) longer, but they where always just "slime - "fungi" for me, really recognized/noticed have i them, just recently. (and i'm fascinated), {but about SEA-slime mold thought i to have read about, but i really could have cofused it with "fresh/melt-water" myxomycotas or some plasmodial algae-- but "salt water molds" are exist at least in form of the "black aquarium algae ( http://www.google.nl/search?um=1&hl=... ) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_mold}... When i see the "title" and think back that i'm suggested it, i feel a little bit ashamed, but i'm not to proud to admit, when i make a fault/mistake ! here some references/books (pdf) about slime mold, there is also a species-"key" ( http://www.google.nl/#sclient=psy-ab&... ) , this one is nice --> ( http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&cp=13&am... ) , slime mold key --> ( http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Key.a... ) , cultivating --> ( http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&cp=8&... ) , or sadly for some german --> ( http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&cp=30&am... ) . sorry again and good luck ( and most likely had cindybinghamkeiser "nailed it").

Ha! Coral spotted Coraline Algae :) I know, bad joke.

There's plenty of interesting things to find at our tide pools every time of the year. I seem to only go during autumn and winter looking for creatures then hitting the sand and waves in summer. I know how cold it can get up there and definitely agree that you should try to go to the tide pools when you're here. Hope you have fun! :)

I'll be in San Diego in a month. Hoping the weather allows for some tide pooling. We do some here, but the beaches in the summer are cooler and windier than So Cal in the dead of winter

It could very well be-the description sounds exactly like your link. Thank you Karen.

I found absolutely nothing in that article, sorry. My gut says coraline algae, however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coralline_a...

I've found that sea slime molds are the hardest to find info on. I don't have anything that could help identify this. Ava T-B suggested this article to me with my other sea slime mold spotting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/scienc...
Also wiki has just slime mold, but I haven't found anything coastal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold

I wouldn't think it was a mold in the tidal zone. Do you have any info on sea slime mold, as I"m not finding anything

Thank you Alex. I'm really not sure what category this truly belongs in, but it does seem like a mold which I believe belongs to the fungi category. Unfortunately, I don't have a nice camera that could pay attention to detail, but I do what I can with what I have. There were only a few interesting fungi to find at the tide pools when I went, but as promised they're uploaded and ready to be identified if possible.

do you think it belongs to fungi. it's possibly: they exist also sea-slime molds . very nice shape/colorfull pictures, it's a little bit concentration needed, to dont get distracted from all the beatifull details to see. In the sea are many weird organism but you could be right with the suspected fungi-category. (even if slime molds are new area for me, the sea slime molds are alien for me). good luck