Sessile Hydrozoan

Sertularella conica

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–110 m

This hydroid spreads across tidal inlets, shallow reefs and deeper fore reef slopes, growing on a range of coastal substrates down past a hundred metres. Its colonies form tiny cup bearing branches, each polyp fishing plankton from the current.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Leptothecata › Sertularellidae › Sertularella

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 285494.