| 21. | In the Bahamas this species has been found on algae of the genera " Cladophora " and " Sargassum ".
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| 22. | In 1987, Carr discovered that the young of green and loggerhead seaturtles spent a great deal of their pelagic lives in floating sargassum mats.
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| 23. | The Atlantic Ocean's Sargasso Sea was named after the algae, as it hosts a large amount of " sargassum ".
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| 24. | This is often supplemented with large patches of white, apparently imitating the calcareous tubes attached by annelid worms to " Sargassum ".
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| 25. | In the autumn, when they reach about, the juvenile fish leave the " sargassum " and sink down to the sea bed.
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| 26. | This is not surprising as young loggerhead turtles live among the floating mats of " Sargassum " algae feeding on the fauna found there.
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| 27. | In 1971, the Japanese seaweed, " Sargassum muticum ", arrived in Britain, where it first appeared in the Isle of Wight.
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| 28. | It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea where it makes its home among floating mats of " Sargassum " seaweed.
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| 29. | In recent years sargassum weed has arrived on the south ( " Dutch " ) shoreline, but the northern French coast is generally free of the weed.
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| 30. | Species of " Sargassum " also bear many blades and pneumatocysts, but both kinds of structures are attached separately to the stipe by short stalks.
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