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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..
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of Rhodophyta (red), Phaeophyta (brown) and Chlorophyta (green) macroalgae.
The list of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) is a list of marine and shore-based species that form a part of the fauna of Australia. This list includes animals which either live entirely marine lives, or which spend critical parts of their lives at sea.
Zostera is a small genus of widely distributed seagrasses, commonly called marine eelgrass, or simply seagrass or eelgrass, and also known as seaweed by some fishers and recreational boaters including yacht captains.
The nest is located on the ground and consists of seaweed, roots, and plant stems. [6] The nests may be found in low shrubs, rocks and jetties. [6] Typical clutch size is one to three eggs. [4] [6] Often two broods are raised in a year, and both adults share nest-building, incubation and feeding. [4]
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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.
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. [1] Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species.