| Typically, abalone favors areas containing rocky substrates, clean water, high salinity, fast water flow rates, and optimal macroalgae resources. |
| But wave action and currents are not as prevalent on the mudflat so a number of green macroalgae species can often be found in extensive mats. |
| Seaweed is the unlovely name for marine macroalgae, an enormous, varied family of more than ten thousand species. |
| The sea grass has largely been supplanted by macroalgae, fast-growing seaweeds that clump into huge mats that drift free in the waters. |
| Lottiid and especially fissurelid limpets, neither of which feed predominately on macroalgae, also have given rise to large-bodied taxa in certain temperate oceans. |
| There are several thousand known species of marine macroalgae, classified according to their green, red or brown colour. |
