Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

Encrusting Fan-Leaf Alga
Encrusting Fan-Leaf Alga
Scientific Name: Lobophora variegata
Class: Phaeophyceae
Family: Dictyotaceae
Category: Brown Algae
Size: 1 to 6 in. (2.5 to 15 cm)  
Depth: 10-330 ft. (3-100 m)
Distribution: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida

Algae
Brown Algae

Encrusting Fan-Leaf Alga

Leafy Rolled-Blade Alga

White Scroll Alga

Sargassum Seaweed

White-Vein Sargassum

Ornate Seaweed

Y Branched Algae



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