Paddle Grass
Halophila decipiens
Category: Seagrass & Algae
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Alismatales
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae
- Genus
- Halophila
Where to Find
Found in 25 diving areas across 16 countries and 8 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 483 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 284 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 43 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 60 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 59 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 251 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 251 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 15 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 58 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 12 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Ksamil, Albania - 1 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 12 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 4 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 2 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 4 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records