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Ceramium sp
This is small feathery red seaweed (rhodophyte). It is highly branched and partly white in colour. The sea weed was found in a rock pool in a wide bay in Victoria, Australia. The white part of the seaweed shows breakdown of pigments because of intense sunlight. Pigment regeneration occurs with decrease in intensity of light.
The sea weed was found in a rock pool ( littoral zone) of a wide bay in Victoria, Australia. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9780...
These little bunches of seaweed looked beautiful floating in rock pools which had a variety of other marine plants and algae. Please refer to the references for interesting facts about this sea weed.
Spotted on Feb 14, 2012
Submitted on Feb 15, 2012
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