Seagrass bed with dense ''Thalassia testudinum'' and an immature queen conch (''Eustrombus gigas |
This is a herbivorous bottom dweller (up to 370 m deep), which feeds on seagrasses in the genera Zostera and Posidonia.
This actually reduces the pollution in those areas, as the caulerpa consumes it: In an eight year study of Caulerpa beds in the French Bay of Menton, it was found that the alga reduced pollution and aided in the recovery of native Posidonia seagrass.
This small limpet used to live on the blades of Zostera marina, a species of seagrass.
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In the early 1930s, the seagrass beds all along that part of the coastline were decimated by "Wasting Disease", which was caused by a slime mold.
Labrisomus guppyi, the Mimic blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea from south Florida to Fernando de Noronha where it inhabits such areas as reefs, near shore areas with rock or rubble covered in algae and beds of seagrass.
Ophiclinops varius, the Variegated snake-blenny, is a species of clinid found in the coastal waters of southern Australia where it in beds of Amphibolis seagrasses.
Ophiclinus gabrieli, the Frosted snake-blenny, is a species of clinid native to Amphibolis seagrass in the coastal waters of southern Australia.
It encompasses over one hundred small, mangrove-fringed cayes, benthic habitats comprising soft-bottom seagrass beds and fringing reefs.