Funnel weed
Distribution:
Funnel weed or peacock’s tail is found along the Western Australian coastline, usually in sheltered or semi-exposed locations, in intertidal rock pools and subtidal areas. The fan-shaped fronds create a funnel shape, giving this alga its name. As mature plants, the fronds often divide forming a cluster of branches growing to about 15 cm high. Funnel weed is the only brown alga in Australia that accumulates a thin chalky coating on one surface, known as calcification. This process is more common in green and red algae.
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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
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- Ram’s horn shell
- Razor clam
- Sand dollars
- 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