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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.

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Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

May 2015

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A bright-green sea slug with a black background.

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Sea Slugs: One Species at a Time

July 2011

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11

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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

May 2012

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