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Jania
Jania rubens
Family: Corallinaceae
📍 Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic
Feathery, pinkish-white tufts of jointed calcified branches — a beautiful encrusting coralline relative that forms soft mats on rockwork. Provides habitat for tiny amphipods and copepods. A common and welcome hitchhiker on Mediterranean and Atlantic live rock. Tolerates cooler water than most corallines.
Keeping this species
- note
- common hitchhiker on live rock; indicates stable calcium and alkalinity
- role
- beneficial — habitat and reef health
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Natural Habitat Temperature
61°F — 79°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Aug high)