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Nemalion sp.

Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Nemaliales
Family
Nemaliaceae

Nemalion sp.

Rubber threads

Thallus is reddish-brown, reaching 20 cm (8 in) tall, attached by a cushion-like holdfast. This solid but soft, rubbery cord usually grows in clumps and rarely branches once or twice.

Habitat

This is a summer annual, which grows on barnacles or rock in the high to mid intertidal of semi-exposed to exposed habitats.

North Pacific Distribution

Afognak Island, Alaska to Baja California, Mexico; Japan

Former scientific names

misidentified as Nemalion elminthoides

Similar taxa

Commonly misidentified as a worm-like invertebrate.

References

Last updated December 26, 2010

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