| ? Caulerpa taxifolia |
Caulerpa prolifera | | Scientific classification | | | | Species | - C. lentillifera
- C. racemosa
- C. taxifolia
and many others Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2518x2806, 391 KB) Summary Caulerpa prolifera scan of herbarium: B.navez - JUL 1982 - Cannes (France) Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Caulerpa ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Typical phyla Rhodophyta (red algae) Chromista Heterokontophyta (heterokonts) Haptophyta Cryptophyta (cryptomonads) Alveolates Pyrrhophyta (dinoflagellates) Apicomplexa Ciliophora (ciliates) Excavates Euglenozoa Percolozoa Metamonada Rhizaria Radiolaria Foraminifera Cercozoa Amoebozoa Choanozoa Many others; classification varies The Kingdom Protista or Protoctista is one of the commonly recognized biological kingdoms, including all the eukaryotes except for...
Classes Chlorophyceae Ulvophyceae Trebouxiophyceae Prasinophyceae The Chlorophyta sensu stricto or chlorophyte algae, comprises most of what are commonly called green algae and includes most members of the grade of putatively ancestral scaly flagellates in Prasinophyceae plus members of Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, and Chlorophyceae. ...
Orders Acrosiphoniales Caulerpales Cladophorales Dasycladales Oltmansiellopsidales Trentepohliales Ulotrichales Ulvales The Ulvophyceae or Ulvophytes are class of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology. ...
| Caulerpa is a genus of seaweeds in the family Caulerpaceae (among the green algae). Seaweed covered rocks in the UK Phycologists consider seaweed to refer any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic (large-bodied), and thus differentiated from most algae that tend towards microscopic size (Smith, 1944). ...
Divisions Chlorophyta Charophyta Streptophytina (Subdivision) The green algae are the large group of algae from which the embryophytes (higher plants) emerged. ...
Some species (especially C. lentillifera and C. racemosa) are eaten under the names sea grape or green caviar. They have a peppery taste. Seagrapes are eaten in Indonesian cuisine, sometimes fresh, and othertimes coated in sugar. They are raised in Cebu, for domestic consumption in the Philippines as well as export to Japan. Unconfirmed reports claim that the alkaloid Caulerpin found in seagrapes can sometimes cause poisoning. Indonesian cuisine reflects the vast variety of people that live on the 13,000 islands that make up Indonesia. ...
In general use, sugar is taken to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a disaccharide which is a white crystalline solid. ...
Cebu is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. ...
An alkaloid is a nitrogenous organic molecule that has a pharmacological effect on humans and animals. ...
The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...
Another species, C. taxifolia, has become an invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea, Australia and southern California (where it is being eradicated). It is thought that Caulerpa species capable of surviving in temperate waters are freed from predators, in part contributing to invasive growth. Most Caulerpa species evolved in tropical waters, where herbivoires have an immunity to toxic compounds within the alga. Temperate water herbivores have no natural immunity to these toxins, allowing Caulerpa to grow unchecked if introduced to temperate waters. Binomial name Caulerpa taxifolia (M. Vahl) C. Agardh, 1817 Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of seaweed (a type of algae) that has been commonly used as ornamentation in aquarium installations around the world. ...
Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
The Mediterranean strain of Caulerpa taxifolia is listed as a federal noxious weed, under the Plant Protection Act. The Aquatic Nuisance Species Taskforce has also created a National Management Plan for the Genus Caulerpa, in U.S. waters. The state of California also prohibits possession of nine different species of Caulerpa.
Caulerpa is common in the aquarium hobby as a nitrate absorber because of its rapid growth under relatively adverse conditions. Many introductions of invasive Caulerpa to the wild are thought to have occurred via aquarium dumping.
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- SEAWEEDS USED AS HUMAN FOOD
- ITIS report
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