May be a species of Ceramium. Please check the CSMCRI publication on seaweeds of India.
It could be a species of Ceramium as suggested by Dishant.
Would you please add few photomicrographs of the same with scale?
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Are you sure that they are seaweeds and not soft corals? It almost appears as though there are polyps at the end of the branches in the second image.
From the pics, it appears more like a bryozoan than a seaweed. Deepthi please check the cs under a microscope.
These are definitely Hydrozoan and Bryozoan species,. depends on the picture!
You'd better ask experts that study these groups.
Good luck
The picture confirms that of Bugula sp, a Bryozoan and dont appear as a seaweed
None of the Photos are belongs to seaweeds
1 & 4 photo belongs to Bryozoan sp. the 4 photo is Electra sp.
2 & 3 photo belongs to Hydrozoan of Eudendrium sp.
The species level identification is not easy with this photos
yes as nandha gopal suggest they are belongs to hydrozoan and bryozoan sp. this you can conform with help of microscopic images, the polyps will be visible only under microscope. SEM images will be better to identify in species level.
As I noted before, Pictures are of Hydrozoan and Bryozoan species.
You'd better provide better picture for expert identification of the genera
If you want ID on species level, you need microscopic pictures.
What geographic area are these bryozoans and hydrozoans from? Can you provide some enlarged close-up photos?
We are regularly encounter these speciemens along with our samples ( marine algal materials) and our zoology friends identified these mateirals as animals. These are not seaweeds and there is no clarity in the last photograph,Thank you
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