Species code: Hs
Halophila stipulacea
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 49 diving areas across 31 countries and 5 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 2 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 1 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 11 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 2 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 11 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 8 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 7 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 5 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 10 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 26 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 4 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 5 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 25 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 25 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 7 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 7 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 57 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 57 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 16 records
- Ksamil, Albania - 4 records
- Alonissos Marine Park, Greece - 25 records
- Crete, Greece - 13 records
- Dodecanese, Greece - 12 records
- Zakynthos & Ionian Islands, Greece - 2 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 1 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 6 records
- Bodrum, Turkey - 21 records
- Kas & Kekova, Turkey - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 25 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 7 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 7 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 19 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 4 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 4 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 6 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 8 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 2 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 1 records