Hydrozoans

A young hydranth of Ectopleura larynx (Ellis & Solander, 1786)(Anthomedusae, Tubulariidae) next to Coryne muscoides (Linnaeus, 1761) taken near Marseille (Mediterranean). The picture covers about 12 mm. Ectopleura larynx has two whorls of filiform tentacles, but nevertheless belongs to the Capitata The author has granted permission to MarBEF/VLIZ to use this picture in ERMS and related biological databases hosted at VLIZ. Source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm

see: Galea, H. R., and Schories, D. 2012b. Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from King George Island, Antarctica. Zootaxa 3321: : 1–21.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Millepora_alcicornis_%28Branching_Fire_Coral%29.jpg

Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia

Part of colony of a hydroid of the family Clathrozoidae

Typical polyp with medusa buds

Collected from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) at Close Encounters (Bali Island, Nusa Tenggara, Pemuteran, Indonesia; Jun 25, 2012) as part of the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center summer workshop on Marine Biodiversity Inventory Methods.

Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia, Canada

Bougainvillia multitentaculata, floating docks of Friday Harbor Marine laboratories, size 7 mm

bell margin showing two types of tentacles