Sessile Hydrozoan

Campanularia hincksii

• Group: Other

A colonial hydroid of surface and near surface waters, drifting among the floating life caught up with Sargassum weed and by the wind sailor jellies. Its polyps share a common stalk, each fishing the open water for plankton.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Leptothecata › Campanulariidae › Campanularia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 117364.