RE: Caulerpa taxifolia

[David.Koran at hq02_usace.army.mil]

That was because there is a slug which does not find the toxin so offensive
as it does to all other animals that keeps it in check.  Good old biological
control.

-----Original Message-----
From: Low Cost Equipment Project [mailto:lce_org at yahoo_com]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:42 AM
To: killietalk at AKA_Org
Subject: RE: Caulerpa taxifolia



--- David Lains <david at zfin_org> wrote:
> 
> It seems they left out where it was native.  Did
> anyone catch that bit of
> info?  I assume its a Caribbean species.
> 
> Best fishes
> David
> 
Its found in this part of the Caribbean/Atlantic
(Puerto Rico). When I had time to skin dive I saw it
often, it isn't particularly invasive or widespread
here.

Heres a link with a nice photo:
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_pr_image.pl?Caulerpa+taxifolia

-Ramon


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