Encrusting fan-leaf alga
Lobophora variegata
(Lamouroux) Womersley ex Oliveira, 1977

Description:
Thin, fan-shaped blades encrusting the substrate, often overlapping in a shingle-like pattern. Shades of green-brown to tan to brown.

Habitat:
Grow in most reef environments, encrusting great areas of shaded, rocky substrates. Especially abundant on undercut wall faces along deep drop-offs. Blades surfaces often covered with sediment and encrusted with epiphytes.

Distribution:
South Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.

Kingdom Protoctista
Phylum Phaeophyta
Genus Lobophora
Species Lobophora variegata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Lobophora variegata (J.V. Lamouroux) Womersley ex E.C.Oliveira, 1977

Scientific synonyms and common names

Encrusting fan-leaf alga [English]
Elfenbankjeswier [Dutch]
Algue polypore [French]
Baumschwamm-Alge [German]

Humann, P., 1993. Reef Coral Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas, (ed. N. Deloach). New World Publications, Inc., Paramount Miller Graphics, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.

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