Sargassum seaweed

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kingdom Protista Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae (seaweed) in class Phaeophyceae. Numberous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they inhabit shallow water and coral reefs. Sargassum is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species. The Atlantic Ocean's Sargasso Sea was named after the algae.

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supergroup SAR (Stramenopiles)
phylum Heterokontophyta
class Phaeophyceae
order Fucales
family Sargassaceae
genus Sargassum