Kawai Color Alga (IMAGE)

Kobe University

Kawai Color Alga

Caption

The brown alga Sporochnus dotyi reflects shimmering green and blue light when illuminated from above. An example of structural coloring, the effect has been discovered by scuba divers and is not known from other brown algae of the order Sporochnales.

Credit

KAWAI Hiroshi

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