Fruit of Thalassia hemprichii
- English Common Name
- Turtle Grass
- Scientific name
- Thalassia hemprichii
- Taxonomy
- Order: Alismatales, Family: Hydrocharitaceae
- Size
- 6 cm – 15 cm
- Species Distribution
- Indian Ocean and the Western Central Pacific Ocean in tropics
- Okinawan Common Name
- Jan-gusa (general term for seagrass)
- Japan Red List of Threatened Species: Near Threatened
- This species is found in the bottom of shallow water, where it does not get exposed to the air during leap tides. This is the most abundant seagrass species found in Okinawa. Seagrass areas have important roles to nurse fish larvae and provide food to animals such as dugongs and green sea turtles.
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- Updated December 2018