Green algae
Phylum: Chlorophyta
Green algae are characteristically green, although colour can range from yellowy-green to almost black. They exist as both large attached algae and free-floating microscopic (planktonic) algae, in both freshwater and marine environments. Marine attached green algae are commonly found on shallow rocky shorelines where the sunlight penetrates the water easily. It is thought that all terrestrial plants evolved from green algae, mainly due to the presence of chlorophylls a and b, which gives them the green colouration.
In This Section
- 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
- 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