Codium arabicum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Chlorophyta
- Class
- Ulvophyceae
- Order
- Bryopsidales
- Family
- Codiaceae
- Genus
- Codium
- Species
- Codium arabicum
- Scientific Name
- Codium arabicum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Codium arabicum
Codium arabicum, commonly known as green sea cushion, is a species of seaweed in the Codiaceae family.
The seaweed has a dorsiventral and applanate thallus that typically grows to a width of 12 centimetres (5 in). The dark green thallus forms an amorphous and somewhat convoluted mass that has a spongy texture which. The mass is made up of a central medulla and cortex. The medulla is composed of cylindrical filaments that are branched into tips forming clavate utricles which form the cortex.
It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Along the east coast of Africa, most Asian coastlines, Australia and New Zealand, South America on the Chilean coast and many islands in the Pacific.
In Western Australia is found along the coast in the Kimberley, Pilbara and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia.
...Codium arabicum in languages:
- Korean
- 떡청각
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Codium adhaerens
- Codium arabicum
- Codium australicum
- Codium barbatum
- Codium bernabei
- Codium brandegeei
- Codium bursa
- Codium capitatum
- Codium cerebriforme
- Codium coactum
- Codium contractum
- Codium convolutum
- Codium coralloides
- Codium cranwelliae
- Codium cuneatum
- Codium cylindricum
- Codium decorticatum
- Codium dichotomum
- Codium dimorphum
- Codium duthieae
- Codium edule
- Codium effusum
- Codium elisabethiae
- Codium extricatum
- Codium fernandezianum
- Codium foveolatum
- Codium fragile
- Codium galeatum
- Codium geppiorum
- Codium gracile
- Codium harveyi
- Codium hubbsii
- Codium intertextum
- Codium intricatum
- Codium isaacii
- Codium isabelae
- Codium isthmocladum
- Codium latum
- Codium lucasii
- Codium mamillosum
- Codium megalophysum
- Codium minus
- Codium muelleri
- Codium papenfussii
- Codium perriniae
- Codium platyclados
- Codium platylobium
- Codium pomoides
- Codium prostratum
- Codium reediae
- Codium repens
- Codium ritteri
- Codium saccatum
- Codium setchellii
- Codium silvae
- Codium simulans
- Codium spongiosum
- Codium stephensiae
- Codium subantarcticum
- Codium subtubulosum
- Codium taylorii
- Codium tomentosum
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