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Coarse Green Sea Hair
Chaetomorpha melagonium
Authority:
(F. Weber et Mohr) Kutzing
North Pacific Distribution:
Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and Aleutian Is., Alaska, to Oregon; Japan; Russia.
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Description:
Thallus is a dark green unbranched, uniseriate filament, which is fairly smooth and rigid and grows in clusters. The cells comprising each filament are large enough to see with the naked eye. Habitat: This perennial occurs on rock or as unattached strands in the low intertidal and subtidal of protected to semi-exposed habitats.
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