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10-28-2005, 09:10 PM
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Nothing to See Here
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Help Identify this
My friend Zack would like to know what this red thing is....
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10-28-2005, 09:30 PM
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i dont know, but yippee! Isn't it cool finding stuff? Almost looks like my birdsnest, someone will help u out.
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10-28-2005, 09:36 PM
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It's really cool looking! I have no idea what it is though
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10-28-2005, 09:36 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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It's a red smooth leaf (kelp)
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10-28-2005, 09:37 PM
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I've seen something like this before; I need to do some digging...
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10-28-2005, 09:47 PM
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It looks like a red macroalgae.
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10-28-2005, 09:49 PM
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Had some come in on some Fiji. Very tuff stuff. But I dont have a clue! I would lean in the direction of Vince though, a macro.
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10-28-2005, 09:51 PM
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Shark
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Red kelp?
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10-28-2005, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by alaskaknucklehead
Red kelp?
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This stuff looks nice.
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10-29-2005, 03:40 AM
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really too poor a picture quality to even attempt accurate ID to the genus level, could we get a pic that is in focus???
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10-29-2005, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by tdwyatt
really too poor a picture quality to even attempt accurate ID to the genus level, could we get a pic that is in focus???
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...and we need a few key features and characteristics as well, to start with, it would help t know where the specimen came from, as well as whether you can see through the thalli, is the frond slippery/slimy or relatively smooth and "dry" when out of water? A picture of the specimen spread on a white piece of filter paper with a ruler for scale would help identify the presence or absence of the types of branching, the attqchmen of the thalli to other thalli, and how the symmetry of each thalli is developed: all key features in the initial identification process.
For example, check Gelidium pusillum, a red algae from Hawaiian waters.
image from the U of Hawaii dept of Botany reefalgae key
Well before getting to the point that we can even think of a family, we need to know some of the basic info to divining what group of Rhodophyta we have in hand:
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| 1 | Plants gelatinous (slippery; hard to pick up) | 2 | | 1 | Plants not gelatinous (may be soft, but not slippery) | 9 | | 2 | Plants calcified (whitened or greyish) under mucus-like material | 3 | | 2 | Plants not calcified | 5 | | 3 | Plants with three or more orders of branching | 4 | | 3 | Plants blade-like with fringed or dissected margins |
Insert from U. of Hawaii Dept of Botany reefalgae key
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If it gives you any indication of the amount of detail needed, the ID for the above specimen is reached at around key 35...
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Last edited by tdwyatt; 10-29-2005 at 04:04 AM.
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