Sessile Hydrozoan

Eudendrium rameum

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 8–300 m

This hydrozoan forms upright branching colonies on hard bottoms, often growing among brown seaweeds. Each stem carries rows of minute polyps that filter food from the water, between about eight and three hundred metres deep.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 117554.