Laomedea angulata Sea grass sea fir

Laomedea angulata on seagrass. Image width ca XX cm. Image: Keith Hiscock

	Phylum	Cnidaria
	Class	Leptolida

	Habitat Information
	Recorded only on eel grasses to about 8 m depth.

	Species description
	A colonial hydroid forming a series of short shoots arising from a rather straight stolon that grows parallel to the edge of Zostera marina leaves. Erect shoots rigidly zigzag, to about 15 mm. The hydrothecae, a supporting, nonliving, protein-chitinous envelope surrounding the stem, is thin-walled with an even rim.

	PMF archive information
	Unavailable

	Species name is listed in the PMF at the following locations:
	>Cawsand Bay Jennycliff Bay Tinside

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