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Posidonia oceanica (Neptune Grass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Posidonia oceanica (commonly known as Neptune Grass or Mediterranean tapeweed) is a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The fruit is free floating and known in Italy as "the olive of the sea" (l'oliva di mare). Balls of fibrous material from its foliage, known as egagropili, wash up to nearby shorelines.
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Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

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♦ 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 diversity of idoteids (Crustacea, Isopoda) inhabiting the Posidonia oceanica litter, Nicolas Sturaro, Stéphane Caut, Sylvie Gobert, Jean-Marie Bouquegneau, Gilles Lepoint, Mar Biol (2010) 157:237–247
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Feeding of the Sparid Fish Sarpa salpa in a Seagrass Ecosystem: Diet and Carbon Flux, S. HAVELANGE, G. LEPOINT, P. DAUBY & J.-M. BOUQUEGNE, Marine Ecology, 18(4): 289-297 (1997)
♦ 6The diet of the peacock wrasse, Symphodus (Crenilabrus) tinca (Labridae), in the southern coast of Tunisia, Amira OUANNES-GHORBEL and Abderrahmane BOUAIN, ACTA ADRIATICA, 47 (2): 175-182, 2006
♦ 7PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE FEEDING HABITS OF CLEAVER WRASSE, XYRICHTHYS NOVACULA (PISCES: LABRIDAE) IN THE STRAIT OF SICILY (MEDITERRANEAN SEA)., A. M. Beltrano, L. Cannizzaro, S. Vitale, A. Milazzo, Electronic Journal of Ichthyology, October, 2006 2: 50-54
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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