Species Gallery (Rhodophyta)
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Bushy specimen of Ahnfeltia plicata in shallow sandy lower shore pool.
Copyright: Francis Bunker
Lower shore sandy pool with Ahnfeltia plicata.
Copyright: Francis Bunker
Laboratory specimen of Anotrichium barbatum.
Copyright: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
Asparagopsis armata at Wembury Point.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Asparagopsis armata at English Island Point.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Asparagopsis armata at Wembury Point.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Beautiful eyelash weed Calliblepharis ciliata on silted bedrock.
Copyright: Francis Bunker
Specimen of Calliblepharis ciliata in dish.
Copyright: Francis Bunker
Calliblepharis jubata
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Calliblepharis jubata in rockpool
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Catenella caespitosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A specimen of Ceramium virgatum with a branch of Corallina to the right.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Chondria coerulescens.
Copyright: Alan Thurbon
Chondria coerulescens.
Copyright: Alan Thurbon
The seaweed Chondrus crispus.
Copyright: MarClim
Chondrus crispus
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Chondrus crispus being covered in fine particulate matter.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Chondrus crispus in shallow murky water.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Corallina officinalis in a rockpool.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Corallina officinalis fronds in rockpool.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Corallina officinalis out of the water.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Close up view of Corallina officinalis in murky water.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Compact Corallina officinalis in rock cleft.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Pale Corallina officinalis specimen.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Cruoria cruoriiformis encrusting maerl.
Copyright: Ignacio Barbara
Cruoria cruoriiformis encrusting maerl (darker patches on right side of photo).
Copyright: Ignacio Barbara
Single-layer of radially-arranged thallus cells under light microscope.
Copyright: Ignacio Barbara
A rock shelf dominated by Cryptopleura ramosa with Laminaria sp. at 20 m depth.
Copyright: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
Cryptopleura ramosa and horse shoe worms on shallow boulders.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Specimen of Cryptopleura ramosa.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Delesseria sanguinea fronds.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Delesseria sanguinea individual amongst epifauna/flora.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Fresh growth of Delesseria sanguinea in Spring.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Dilsea carnosa with snakelocks anemones in background.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Dilsea carnosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Drachiella spectabilis.
Copyright: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
Drachiella spectabilis showing iridescence.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Drachiella spectabilis.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
The seaweed Furcellaria lumbricalis, plant with fertile branches.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Shiny Furcellaria lumbricalis specimen.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
The cleaved wart weed Gracilaria multipartita
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
The siphoned feather weed Heterosiphonia plumosa in situ
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Laboratory specimen of Heterosiphonia plumosa
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Lithophyllum incrustans.
Copyright: Francis Bunker
Lithothamnion corallioides. Collected from c. 10m depth.
Copyright: Prof. Christine Maggs
Lithothamnion glaciale nodules amongst pebbles with the sunstar Crossaster papposus, Isle of Lewis.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Boulders with Psammechinus miliaris and encrusting Lithothamnion glaciale.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Boulders with encrusting, branched Lithothamnion glaciale.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Lomentaria articulata.
Copyright: Dr Harvey Tyler-Walters
Lomentaria articulata on an exposed rock.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Lomentaria articulata subjected to camera flash.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Small patch of Lomentaria articulata hanging down from an intertidal rock.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
The seaweed Mastocarpus stellatus.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Mastocarpus stellatus hanging, exposed at low tide.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Mastocarpus stellatus.
Copyright: Dr Harvey Tyler-Walters
Mesophyllum lichenoides found in a shallow rockpool at Kingsand
Copyright: Michael Puleston
Mesophyllum lichenoides
Copyright: Michael Puleston
Mesophyllum lichenoides appearing to be forming over limpets in a rockpool at Kingsand
Copyright: Michael Puleston
Mesophyllum lichenoides taken on Mt. Batten, Plymouth
Copyright: Michael Puleston
Mesophyllum lichenoides with hydroids.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Close up of Mesophyllum lichenoides
Copyright: Michael Puleston
The red seaeed Mesophyllum lichenoides.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Metacallophyllis laciniata on shallow cobbles.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Stand of Metacallophyllis laciniata in shallow water at Outer Hope, Devon.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Odonthalia dentata photographed in the Isle of Man.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Fronds of pepper dulse, Osmundea pinnatifida.
Copyright: Dr Harvey Tyler-Walters
The seaweed Osmundea pinnatifida.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Palmaria palmata fronds on lower eulittoral rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Palmaria palmata hanging from an intertidal rock.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Palmaria palmata in between rockpools.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Palmaria palmata near an intertidal rockpool.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Palmaria palmata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Phycodrys rubens on a kelp stipe at 10 m depth.
Copyright: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
Specimen of Phyllophora crispa.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Phymatolithon calcareum forming a maerl bed. Loch Carron, West Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Phymatolithon calcareum maerl bed from Loch Carron, Highland.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Washed up maerl, Phymatolithon calcareum
Copyright: Derek Mayes
Phymatolithon calcareum forming a maerl bed.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Phymatolithon calcareum with one Lithothamnion corallioides thallus (left, arrowed). Collected from c. 5m depth at Carraroe, Co. Clare.
Copyright: Prof. Christine Maggs
Plocamium cartilagineum
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Polyides rotunda.
Copyright: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
Polyidea rotunda in shallow water at Outer Hope, Devon
Copyright: Paul Newland
Porphyra umbilicalis amongst barnacles
Copyright: D. Paul Brazer
Porphyra umbilicalis collected from Skomer
Copyright: D. Paul Brazer
Rhodothamniella floridula
Copyright: Mike Firth
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