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Spotted on Feb 8, 2012
Submitted on Feb 13, 2012
10 Comments
Ahhh! If they used to be long before they were grazed on, then Enteromorpha definitely is a strong possibility (though anything from that genus is now classed as Ulva).
I think, Enteromorpha compressa or Enteromorpha intestinalis
curiosity is that I have seen a lot of granite stones!
I have seen the other beaches and usually elongated and flat, sometimes much longer than a finger, 20 to 30 cm, but may not be the same! tomorrow will look in a book of autochthonous flora and tell you something!
Also, great pics! Love the details, especially the vibrant greens!
This is tough to ID because I think there has been extensive grazing on this, and then you mentioned the crabs feeding on it, so that is probably the case! But my thinking is something in the genus Blidingia (http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesinformati...) or Prasiola (http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesinformati...), or something like that, which has been eaten up quite a bit. I'll have a better think about it tomorrow when I have slept :D
Carcinus maenas use to eat it, but where I live nobody eat seaweed
lovely green! Is it edible!
no! it's seaweed!
some kind of moss on a rock?