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Dead Man's Fingers

Photo: @ricmola · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Plants

Dead Man's Fingers

Codium fragile

Observations in the area
3
Last sighting
6 August 2025
Category
Plants
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The species

Codium fragile, known commonly as green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers, forked felt-alga, stag seaweed, sponge seaweed, green sponge, green fleece, and oyster thief, is a species of seaweed in the family Codiaceae. It originates in the Pacific Ocean near Japan and has become an invasive species on the coasts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean.

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