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Created 8/28/2014 

Phylum Ochrophyta, Class Pelagophyceae

Family Sarcinochrysidaceae

HAWAII

Sarcinochrysis marina

Kewalo, Oahu, 75 feet

 

 

Baby Barge, Oahu, 75 feet

GOLDEN SACS

Seasonally common at scuba depths.  Extremely delicate and easily broken, attached to substrate by a single point.  May be confused with the intertidal brown algae Colpomenia sinuosa.