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Researched by | Emily Wilson | Refereed by | Admin |
Authority | (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||
Other common names | - | Synonyms | - |
A colonial hydroid that grows up to 15 cm or more. It is straggly in appearance with alternate branches, widely spaced along the stem. The hydrothecae, a supporting, nonliving, protein-chitinous envelope surrounding the stem, is large, up to 1.6 mm long, tubular and variously outward curving. It is easily mistaken for a sparsely branched form of Abietinaria abietina but is distinguished by opposite hydrothecae.
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NBN (National Biodiversity Network) Atlas. Available from: https://www.nbnatlas.org.
OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System), 2023. Global map of species distribution using gridded data. Available from: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. www.iobis.org. Accessed: 2023-06-08
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Last Updated: 17/07/2002