Surfgrass and coralline algae in a tidepool with the orange nudibranch visible under the surfgrass
Close up of the nudibranch
Just a little orange #nudibranch cruising on a #surfgrass leaf.
🦑 #tidepools
A frond of a finely branched red seaweed in the low intertidal.
A red seaweed on a rock in the intertidal
Plocamium pacificum from San Francisco for #phycologyfriday. It’s a little battered this time of year, but this species makes beautiful pressings. In southern CA, it’s commonly associated with #surfgrass, Phyllospadix torreyi.
Coastal marine seagrass covered in small red algal blades
Happy #phycologyfriday! This small red marine alga is called Smithora and it grows as an epiphyte on #surfgrass, a marine flowering plant. Photo from Monterey, Calif, 2023.
