Preliminary Study of Benthic Marine Algae from Kuchinoerabu Island, Kagoshima, Japan

Preliminary study of benthic marine algae was conducted in Kuchinoerabu Island, an island of northern end of Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Seventeen species of Chlorophyceae, five species of Phaeophyceae, and thirty-two species of Rhodophyceae were confirmed, respectively. Asparagopsis taxiformis and Codium cylindricum, Ceratodictyon spongiosum were dominated at the depth from 4 to 10 m in deep, meanwhile crustose coralline algae were dominated on the rocks and boulders from 1 to 3 m in deep