White Tangled Bryozoan

Adeonellopsis subsulcata

Also known as: Bryozoan, Sea Mat, Bracebridgia subsulcata

ALSO KNOWN AS

Bryozoan
Sea Mat
Bracebridgia subsulcata

White Tangled Bryozoan: Bracebridgia subsulcata and some Brain coral: Diploastrea heliopora — White Tangled Bryozoan adult, photographed at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Egypt — @Kalab · Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Egypt · September 20111 / 1

Overview

Found on overhangs, walls, and sometimes clinging to other invertebrates, over coral and rocky reefs.

Bryozoa are tiny microscopic celled animals that live in a soft membranous cell in colonies that could be just a few or a few million in size. Tiny tentacles protrude form an opening to catch plankton.
Some colonies can be 1mm in height as flat sheets while others resemble plant or coral and are often mistaken as such.

How to identify

COLOURS

white

Body shape: antlers branched

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Habitat & where to find it

Range · Western Atlantic
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LIVES IN

Found on overhangs, walls, and sometimes clinging to other invertebrates, over coral and rocky reefs.

RANGE

Western Atlantic

Adult photos 1

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ALL STAGES

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Taxonomy

kingdomAnimalia
phylumBryozoa
classGymnolaemata
orderCheilostomatida
familyAdeonidae
genusAdeonellopsis
speciesAdeonellopsis subsulcata (Smitt, 1873)

SourcesWoRMS