Codium setchellii

Codium setchellii 3

Codium setchellii is an unusual green alga, forming a sinuous blackish - green spongy crust on rocks.  It lives in the mid-high intertidal zone.  Codium is a multinucleate unicellular alga and ranges from Baja to Alaska. 

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  3. (c) Kathleen Dickey, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/27112769

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Genus Codium
Species setchellii
Order Bryopsidales
Phylum Chlorophyta