Leathesia marina
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Leathesia difformis is a littoral brown algae in the Phylum Phaeophyta and the order Chordariales which is commonly attached to other seaweeds and sometimes rocks. When young, the plant is solid but as it matures it become hollow and somewhat convoluted and has the apperance of a small leathery brown bag about the same size as a tennis ball. The texture is rubbery and the outer surface smooth.
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