Caulerpa paspaloides

Caulerpa paspaloides is a species of seaweed in the family Caulerpaceae. The species is native to the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of northern Brazil.^[1][2]

Caulerpa paspaloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Ulvophyceae
Order:	Bryopsidales
Family:	Caulerpaceae
Genus:	Caulerpa
Species:	C. paspaloides
Binomial name
Caulerpa paspaloides (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Greville
Synonyms
Chauvinia paspaloides Bory de Saint-Vincent

Three forms and five varieties are accepted.^[3]

• Caulerpa paspaloides f. flabellata Weber-van Bosse
• Caulerpa paspaloides f. phleoides (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Weber-van Bosse
• Caulerpa paspaloides f. phyllaphlaston (G.Murray) Weber-van Bosse
• Caulerpa paspaloides var. compressa (Weber Bosse) M.Howe
• Caulerpa paspaloides var. laxa Weber Bosse
• Caulerpa paspaloides var. minima Humm & S.E.Taylor
• Caulerpa paspaloides var. wurdemannii Weber Bosse