''Sargassum miyabei'' is a species of seaweed native to East Asia and Southeast Asia, from eastern

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. It belongs to the subgenus ''Bactrophycus'', section ''Teretia'' of the genus ''

Sargassum ''Sargassum'' is a genus of brown (class Phaeophyceae) macroalgae ( seaweed) in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral ...

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