Species Gallery (Bryozoa)
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Dense growth of Alcyonidium diaphanum colonies at about 3 metres depth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Alcyonidium diaphanum at Stoke Point, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Alcyonidium diaphanum colony on rocky out crop, Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Clump of sea chervil (Alcyonidium diaphanum) attached to shell.
Copyright: Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
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The gelatinous bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum colonizing cobbles at 25 m depth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Closeup of the invasive bryozoan Bugula neritina.
Copyright: Holly Latham
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Colonies of Bugulina flabellata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Bugulina flabellata and cup corals.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Colonies of Bugulina turbinata on overhang.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Colonies of Bugulina turbinata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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The bryozoans Bugulina turbinata and Bowerbankia spp.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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A colony of the sea mat Conopeum reticulum.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
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Close up of the zooids of Conopeum reticulum.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
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Crisularia plumosa at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Crisularia plumosa at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Clump of Einhornia crustulenta from brackish pools in the Netherlands.
Copyright: Hans Kleef and Peter Tydeman
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Einhornia crustulenta.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
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Electra pilosa on macroalgae.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Dead Electra pilosa skeleton encrusting a rock and covered in Pomatoceros triqueter tubes.
Copyright: Derek Mayes
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Escharoides coccinea colony with Spirorbis spp. on the Scylla reef, Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Flustra foliacea.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Flustra foliacea off Salcombe.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Close up of Flustra foliacea zooids.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Membranipora membranacea.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Membranipora membranacea colony on kelp frond.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Close-up of colony of Membranipora membranacea.
Copyright: Holly Latham
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Close-up of colony of Membranipora membranacea.
Copyright: Holly Latham
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Oshurkovia littoralis
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Parasmittina trispinosa
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Small colony of Pentapora fascialis.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Pentapora fascialis colonies on rock at the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Pentapora fascialis colony at the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Pentapora fascialis colony on the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Pentapora fascialis with tips at the middle of the colony sloughed off, on the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Close up of Pentapora fascialis on the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Ross (Pentapora fascialis).
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Schizoporella unicornis
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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Schizoporella unicornis on rocky substratum
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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Convoluted lamina of a colony of the bryozoan Smittina landsborovii.
Copyright: Rob Spray and Dawn Watson
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Encrusting (upper-right) and foliaceous (centre and left) parts of a Smittina landsborovii colony, with deadman's fingers in the foreground.
Copyright: Rob Spray and Dawn Watson
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Turbicellepora magnicostata on the underside of a boulder.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Zooids of Victorella pavida with lophophores everted.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
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Colonies of Victorella pavida on plant stem.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Lophophores and zooids of Victorella pavida.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
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Watersipora subatra
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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Watersipora subatra
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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Watersipora subatra growing next to Halichondria panicea under a large, intertidal boulder at Mt. Batten
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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Watersipora subatra overgrowing Halichondria panicea at Mt. Batten
Copyright: Michael Puleston
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