in size, shape and location. There are those that are attached (benthic) and others that are free floating (holopelagic). As mentioned before, the Caribbean receives two interconnected species, Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans.

Evolution

Fossils of a floating brown algae reminiscent of modern Sargassum are common in certain layers of the Early Oligocene-aged Menilite Formation of Poland, in what was once the Paratethys Sea,

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