by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Seaweeds, Species List
Rhizoclonium riparium This seaweed is best examined close up, because youll see it looks like its made of lots of little beads! This seaweeds basically looks like bright green, tangled candyfloss on the rockyshores! Now I usually have a video of the...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Red Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Polysiphonia lanosa This seaweed is as clingy as seaweed gets! It never wants to be apart from its friend egg wrack! In fact it always grows on it and you rarely if ever find one without the other. This bushy, red seaweed grows on the fronds of egg wracks,...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Plaice – Pleuronectes platessa Where is your plaice in the world? On the rockyshore! Thats because rockyshore are great nursery grounds for baby flatfish – so if you head down to the shore late spring to summer, and just watch the sand in the bottom of...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | green seaweed, Seaweeds, Species List
Tub Gurnard – Chelidonicthys lucera Called Gutweed, because this bringt green seaweed has the shape a bit like intestines… the bright green colour doesnt really make that too gross for us but I feel bad for green seamonsters. This is a common find on...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Serrated wrack can be told apart, quite easily from the other Fucus species once you know what to look for. Its a very flat fucus, with no...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Spiral wrack can be told apart from the other Fucus species if you look at the way it hangs down. If you see the ends of the fronds spiral...
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