Oyster Thief or Codium

Voleur d’huîtres ou Codium fragile

Codium fragile

• Description

  This green alga from Japan lives underwater and sometimes can be found washed up on the shore bleached white. Fleece-like to the touch with a green thick and spongy y-shaped cylindrical branches, 3 to 10 mm in diameter. It can grow to 90 cm long.

• Habitat

  Bays and Estuaries, Beaches & Sand Dunes, Coastal Zone, Mudflats, Salt Marshes, Sandflats

• Interesting Fact

  Attaches itself to the bottom with a strong holdfast, sometimes may cause oyster and other shells to which it is attached to float away.