Sea Grape or Sailor's Eyeball, Ventricaria ventricosa

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Updated 1/17/2014

Family Valoniaceae

HAWAII

Ventricaria ventricosa



Moku o Lo'e, Oahu, 2 feet	Yawatano, Japan, 10 feet

SEA GRAPE or SAILOR'S EYEBALL

Dark green spheres attached to hard surfaces in shallow water. Each fluid-filled sphere is a single cell containing many nuclei. On rare circumstances these may exceed 2 inches in diameter. Warm seas worldwide.