Species Guide — Marine Life — Sponges & Seaweeds

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Subcategory: Sponges & Seaweeds
Sponges & Seaweeds

Sponges & Seaweeds

39 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Codium pomoides

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Blue-green Algae

Rivularia firma

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Zonaria spiralis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Distromium flabellatum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Brown Seaweed Sp.

Cystophora monilifera

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Brown Seaweed Sp.

Cystophora moniliformis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Brown Zig-zag Seaweed

Cystophora torulosa

Dark green buble like algae on a rock underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Bubble Caulerpa

Caulerpa geminata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Cactus Caulerpa

Caulerpa cactoides

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Coralline

Corallina officinalis

A greenish-brown marine algae flowing across the sand bottom underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Phyllospora comosa

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dead Man's Fingers

Codium fragile

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Deadman's Fingers

Splachnidium rugosum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dwarf Grass-Wrack

Zostera muelleri

spikey pink encrusting sea sponge washed up on the sand

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Encrusting Sponge

Dendrilla cactos

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Posidonia australis

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A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size