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Genus (i.e. Fucus)
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Common Name (i.e. Rock Weed)
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Red Sea Fan
Callophyllis spp.
Authority:
North Pacific Distribution:
Throughout the area (except the Arctic Ocean).
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Florideophyceae
Order:
Gigartinales
Family:
Kallymeniaceae
Former Scientific Names:
Description: Thallus is red, flattened, fan-shaped, more or less dichotomously branched, with branch segments narrow or wide and short or long (depending on species). Habitat: Species are subtidal (rarely low intertidal); some occur on rock, others are epiphytic or even epizoic. Most appear to be perennial.
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