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The list of seaweeds and marine flowering plants of Australia (temperate waters) is a list of marine species that form a part of the flora of Australia. The geographical range is from Perth, Western Australia to New South Wales, and those tropical species which are also found in this range may also be listed here..
Asparagopsis taxiformis (red sea plume or limu kohu), formerly A. sanfordiana, [1] is a species of red algae, with cosmopolitan distribution in tropical to warm temperate waters. [2] Researchers have demonstrated that feeding ruminants a diet containing 0.2% A. taxiformis seaweed reduced their methane emissions by nearly 99 percent. [3]
Seaweed species such as kelps provide essential nursery habitat for fisheries and other marine species and thus protect food sources; other species, such as planktonic algae, play a vital role in capturing carbon and producing at least 50% of Earth's oxygen.
Fucus serratus, "toothed wrack" Pelvetia canaliculata, "channelled wrack" Accumulation of detrital seagrass wrack (Posidonia australis) at West Beach, South Australia Wrack washed ashore in Brunswick, Georgia by Hurricane Matthew. Wrack is part of the common names of several species of seaweed in the family Fucaceae.
Laminaria is a genus of brown seaweed in the order Laminariales (kelp), comprising 31 species native to the north Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans. This economically important genus is characterized by long, leathery laminae and relatively large size.
Its unique nutritional benefits and medicinal properties have helped seaweed soar in popularity in recent decades, causing the global commercial seaweed market to reach more than 17 billion last ...
Ulva australis, the southern sea lettuce, is a species of bright green coloured seaweed in the family Ulvaceae that can be found in waters around Australia and was first described by Swedish botanist Johan Erhard Areschoug. It is an edible green algae, although sometimes designated as a seaweed. [1]
Coelopids are small to medium-sized (2.5–9 mm (0.098–0.35 in), usually 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in)), robust flies, predominantly with a flat body and darkly coloured. Coelopidae species are usually densely bristly or hairy. Their eyes are small. The arista is bare to pubescent. Ocelli and ocellar bristles are present.