Description: Large green and spherical, up to 30 cms across with felt-like surface and spongy feel.

Habitat: Very rare. Epilithic in the sublittoral.

Distribution: Few records from the British Isles including the Channel Isles. Europe: Mediterranean, Adriatic, Azores, Portugal, Spain, France and Belgium. Further afield: Canary Isles.

Similar Species: No other similar species in Europe.

Key Identification Features:

• Spherical with felt-like surface.

Distribution Map from NBN: Codium bursa at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Codium bursa at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Codium bursa at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Codium bursa (Olivi) C.Agardh, 1817. AphiaID: 145079.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Viridiplantae; Chlorophyta; Chlorophytina; Ulvophyceae; Bryopsidales; Codiaceae; Codium