Sea Oak

Dynamena pumila

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–20 m

Sea oak grows as a flat, branching colony resembling a tiny frond of seaweed, fixed to rock or clinging to larger algae. It thrives on exposed rocky shores in the intertidal and shallow subtidal, down to about twenty metres.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Leptothecata › Sertulariidae › Dynamena

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 117888.