Slender Stickhydroid

Eudendrium capillare

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–1000 m

This slender hydroid grows in branching colonies on rocks, mussels, barnacles, and ascidians from the shallows to about 1,000 metres. Each tiny polyp extends a ring of tentacles to snare drifting plankton.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Anthoathecata › Eudendriidae › Eudendrium

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 117544.