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Coarse Spongy Cushion
Codium ritteri
Authority:
Setchell & N.L. Gardner
North Pacific Distribution:
Bering Sea and Aleutian Is., Alaska, to northern British Columbia; Russia.
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Bryopsidophyceae
Order:
Codiales
Family:
Codiaceae
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Description: Thallus is coarse, green spongy cushions up to 4 cm (1.5 in) tall and 10 cm (4 in) in diameter. The minute dots visible to the naked eye on the surface of the cushions are the tips of swollen filaments, a distinction from C. setchellii.  Habitat:  The species is found in semi-exposed to semi-protected areas on bedrock or large boulders in the low intertidal and subtidal to depths of 24 m (79 ft). Similar taxa:  Codium setchellii.
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