Fibre ball
The fibre ball comes from a seagrass called Posidonia or strapweed, which has ribbon-like leaves. The seagrass fibre balls are formed when the leaves break off in winter storms and get tossed around by waves and currents. This causes the fibre from the decaying leaves to tangle together. In the early 1900s, fibre from strapweed was collected for its high cellulose content and was used in the manufacture of suits, explosives and household products.
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- Chordates – Animals with backbones
- Invertebrates – Animals without backbones
- Abalone
- Acorn barnacle
- Baler shell
- Blue button sea jelly
- Bluebottle
- Bryozoan
- Bubbler crabs and sand balls
- Chiton
- Cone shell
- Coral
- Cowry shell
- Crab
- Cuttlebone
- Goose barnacle
- Hermit crabs
- Horned ghost crab (Manburr)
- Limpet
- Mud crab
- Mussel
- Periwinkle
- Pipi
- Ram’s horn shell
- Razor clam
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- Scallop
- Sea hare
- Sea hares
- Sea jelly
- Sea star
- Sea urchin
- Silver-lip pearl oyster
- Sponge
- Tube worm
- Turban snail
- Violet snail
- Marine Pests
- Seagrasses and Algae
- Unusual Finds