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PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Nongeniculate coralline algae

Photo Gallery

The photo album of nongeniculate corallines:

• Morphology and Characteristics:

  • Melobesia on surf grass

  • Decalcified piece of Melobesia

  • Under microscope look at cell structure

  • Bleaching of a coralline alga

• Diversity of Structure:

  • Nongeniculate corallines in tide pool

  • Nobby protuberances

  • Flat plates the overlap

  • Smooth, bumpy crust

  • Globular coralline

  • Taeniform

• Diversity of Habitat: 

  • Corallines at coral reefs

  • Epiphytic corallines on sea grass

  • Under the microscope look at the epiphytes

  • Corallines can make up an undergrowth layer

  • Corallines on rocks in the intertidal

  • Domination of corallines

  • In the aquarium

  • Epizoic corallines on mollusc shell

• Life Cycle: (note all pictures are of the reproductive stages of Melobesia, often Phyllospadix can be seen as well)

  • Conceptacle of female gametophyte

    • Trichogyne structure (100X)

  • Conceptacle of male gametophyte

  • Conceptacle of carposporophyte

  • Conceptacle of sporophyte

  • Conceptacle of sporophyte with zonate tretraspore and one pre-zonate spore

• Recruitment Experiment:

  • Me at the site putting in the surf grass

  • Fake surf grass attached to the real surf grass

  • Chicken feed bag surf grass

  • Close-up of tips of blades

  • Garbage bag surf grass

  • Melobesia colonies in comparison with width of blade

  • Close-up of Melobesia colony on fake surf grass

• Interesting Photos of Corallines:

  • Epiphytes on epiphytes

  • The artistic side of corallines

  • Pink striped chiton that feeds on corallines

  • Close up of the colors and stripes of the chiton

  • Something ate the coralline

  • 150,000 year old coralline fossi

  All pictures taken by M. Roth unless otherwise noted.

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