Rhodochorton purpureum
Red sea moss
- Authority
- (Lightfoot) Rosenvinge
Habitat
Turfs occur in the high intertidal on the walls of sea caves or in shady rock crevices, also on mid to low intertidal rock in sheltered to semi-exposed habitats.
North Pacific Distribution
Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska to northern British Columbia; Russia
Former scientific names
Byssus purpurea, Audouinella purpurea, Rhodochorton rothii
Similar taxa
Sphacelaria rigidula also forms carpets of short filaments in the intertidal, but it is a brown alga.
References
Last updated December 26, 2010