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Scientific name: Ulva pertusa kjellman The total length: 20�`40cm Anaaosa is thinly, flat and a feel is not pliant. A hole opens here and there with growth. It inhabits on the pebble, which is mainly in the shoal of an inner bay. It was used as edible before. Habitat: On the pebble of inner bay

Scientific name: Dictyoya dichotoma Lamouroux Amijigusa is thin and slender long and the point is divided into two and the tip is round. If hold it up to the light, there is appeared a network-like pattern. Although the whole color is brown, all over the sea, it seems to have the gloss of a purple-blue color. It mainly inhabits on the rock of a shoal or a beach. Habitat: On the rock of a shoal, Chokantai *Chokantai (The place which appears in a sea surface at the time of ebb tide, and hides all over the sea at the time of high tide)

Scientific name: Halophila ovalis Height: 2�`4cm Although it seems the seaweed when it glances, in fact a plant on land had come to inhabit in the sea over long years. The width of a leaf is 1cm, and a leaf is thin, is soft and has two sheets at a time from the subterranean stem with the ellipse form. When summer comes, a flower will bloom and a fruit will bear. Habitat: The sands area of Choukantai of inner bay *Chokantai (The place which appears in a sea surface at the time of ebb tide, and hides all over the sea at the time of high tide)

Scientific name: Ciaosiphon okamuranus Tokida Height: 20�`40cm It is cylindrical, is long like a string, and is branched off irregularly or the shape of feather. A feel is soft and it is slippery it. When it puts into a bag, still a lot of mucus will be taken out, and it will solidify like a dumpling. Vinegar is added, and eaten. Habitat: on the body of marine seed plants, such as Beniamamo and Umijigusa, which is mainly in Chokantai. *Chokantai (The place which appears in a sea surface at the time of ebb tide, and hides all over the sea at the time of high tide)

Scientific name: Galaxaura fastigiata decaisne Height: 10�`20cm Garagara is cylindrical shape. There is a knot, and the tip of a branch is flat as have cut off. The branch branches off regularly and a feel is smooth. Since lime is included so much, it will become hard when it dries. It mainly inhabits on a shoal or a rock. Habitat: On the rock of Chokantai *Chokantai (The place which appears in a sea surface at the time of ebb tide, and hides all over the sea at the time of high tide)

Scientific name:Zonaria diesingiana J. Agardh The total length: 1�`8cm The whole color is a brown. On the whole, it is thin, and it grows up so that it may be piled up in fan-shaped form. When it grows up, a cleft will be made perpendicularly, and it looks like the torn fan form. It mainly inhabits on the rock of the shallow place, or the rock of the beach. Habitat: On the rock of the shallow place, the rock of the beach.

Scientific name: Kallymenia perforata j Agardh The total length: 20�`40cm It is circular form and is beautiful seaweed. The whole color is greenish-brown and a feel is very soft. When pulled by hand, it will be torn easily. The surface will be covered with a hole and will be torn as it grows. It mainly inhabits on the rock of a sea surface. Habitat: On the rock of a sea surface

Scientific name: Monostroma nitidum wittrock The total length: 10�`30cm The color of the body is green, and is a circular form. It is thin and soft on the whole, and a feel is slippery. When it grows up, an edge will be frizzled, and a cleft, a crease will be made and become hard. In spring, it is generated on the reef, and inhabited. Moreover, this is dried and it can also eat as the ingredients of the soup or Tsukudani (a food boiled down in soy). It is called “Aasaa” in a dialect. Habitat: On the reef of Chokantai *Chokantai (The place which appears in a sea surface at the time of ebb tide, and hides all over the sea at the time of high tide)

Scientific name: Caulerpa serrulata var. Serrulata f. Height: 3�`7cm It is a green algae network. The width of the leaf is 1cm, the length is about 10cm and it branches off as the shape of feather. The stalk, which crawls on the bottom of the sea, is cylindrical. The stalk, which stands, has a notch like a saw in both sides, and is spiral. A feel is hard. The bottom of the sea with much mud is liked. It inhabits on the submarine pebbles have crawling a long root. Habitat: The sand bottom of a shoal, on the rock

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