Strapweed
Distribution:
Strapweed or Posidonia is the only common seagrass in the Perth region, that appears ‘grass-like’. Growing from rhizomes that spread just below the surface of the sand, strapweed creates dense and extensive seagrass meadows. Seeds float to the surface during spring before sinking to the ocean floor to germinate. Strapweed often sheds its leaves each year, which are often seen floating on the surface and washed up onto the beach.
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