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Halophila ovalis (seagrass)

Synonyms: Caulinia ovalis (homotypic); Halophila madagascarensis; Kernera ovalis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Halophila ovalis, commonly known as paddle weed, spoon grass or dugong grass, is a seagrass in the family Hydrocharitaceae. It is a small herbaceous plant that occurs in sea beds and other saltwater environments in the Indo-Pacific. The first description of the species was by Robert Brown as Caulinia ovalis, this was transferred to the genus Halophila by Joseph Dalton Hooker in Flora Tasmaniae (1858).The species name Halophila ovata is now regarded as a synonym of this species.
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Infraspecies

Halophila ovalis bullosa
Halophila ovalis linearis
Halophila ovalis ovalis (Johnson's seagrass)
Halophila ovalis ramamurthiana

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ashmore Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve 144062 Australia      

Ecosystems

Predators

Arrhamphus sclerolepis (shortbeaked garfish)[3]
Diplodus noct (Red Sea seabream)[4]
Dugong dugon (Dugong)[5]
Rhabdosargus sarba (Yellowfin bream)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Trophic strategies of garfish, Arrhamphus sclerolepis, in natural coastal wetlands and artificial urban waterways, Nathan J. Waltham, Rod M. Connolly, Marine Biology (2006) 148: 1135–1141
♦ 4Feeding Habits of the Nokt Diplodus noct, (Valenciennes, 1830) From Southern Sinai, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Egypt, EL-MOR M.E., and EL-MAREMIE H.A., JOURNAL OF THE ARABIAN AQUACULTURE SOCIETY Vol. 3 No 1 June 2008
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Fish diets and food webs in the Swan–Canning estuary, River Science July 2009, Department of Water, Government of Western Australia
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0