Seagrass
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that can live underwater. Unlike algae, they are true flowering plants with leaves, roots, flowers, seeds and underground horizontal stems called rhizomes. They are highly specialised and have adapted to the soft sediments of coastal and estuarine environments. Seagrasses are extremely important as they stabilise sandy sea floors, provide habitat including nursery areas for juvenile fish and are an important food source for some marine mammals, including dugongs.
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