Coralline red algae are a poorly known group of marine organisms. Yet, a close examination reveals that they are simple and easily understood. They are also a group of marine plants of considerable ecological importance, especially in the construction of coral reefs.

  Introductory overview
  Two kinds of corallines
  Importance of corallines
  Thallus organization
  Reproduction ??

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Contributions

• Access online bibliography. by Wm. Woelkerling. Last update: June 1996
• Access Coralline News. Newsletter devoted to coralline algae, edited by Yvonne Chamberlain.
• Colour illustrated guide to common intertidal crustose corallines of South Africa. [coming soon]. Pictures and short descriptions to help with identification.
• Competitive interactions among crustose coralline algae by Gavin Maneveldt & Derek Keats. Based on our studies of coralline algae along the West Coast of South Africa, as well as information published, for example, by Bob Steneck and Megan Dethier.
• Effects of grazing on crustose coralline algae by Gavin W. Maneveldt & Derek W. Keats. Geographic studies on the interaction between the limpet, Patella cochlear, and the encrusting coralline alga Spongites yendoi.

Other

• Email addresses and web pages of people working on coralline algae. You can also add your own details to the page. I have fallen a little behind in keeping this up todate, but I will shortly connect it to a database so you can add yourself automatically.
• Coralline algal discussion forum. A web-based discussion forum where discuss all aspects of the biology of the Corallinales. The forum supports image attachments, and includes a realtime chat feature.

Links

• The recently redesigned NAUSICAÄ website is a database containing links to the most interesting web sites concerning the sea-related topics and marine activities.
• The fossil coralline algae website of Michael Rasser at the Institute for Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Austria.
• Pleistocene coralline web site. The images on this page are different species of crustose coralline algae found on Pleistocene lagoons of the Caribbean.
• Coralline algae propagation for aquaria. A brief introduction to the use of coralline algae in tropical aquaria.
• The relationship between water motion and rhodolith movement in the Southwestern Gulf of California, Mexico.
• Algal Ridge. Encrusting coralline algae flourish where waves break on the reef, forming an elevated bank known as the algal ridge.
• Maerl Beaches. Maerl beaches, the cast-up remains of coralline algae, are a stunningly beautiful feature of some parts of the west of Ireland.
• Home of the fossil coralline algae, from Michael Rasser.
• Celtic Sea Minerals, manufacture a dietary supplement called AquaMin from maerl (free-living coralline algal 'rhodoliths')