Filellum serpens (Hassall, 1848)

Picture: Fig. 1

SYNONYMY

Campanularia serpens Hassall, 1848

Grammaria serpens (Hassall, 1848)

DESCRIPTION

Little, simple, stolonal colonies. Stolons creeping and ramified. Hydrothecae sessile, cylindrical, adnate to stolons for 1 to 2/3, rim even (Fig.1). Gonothecae in hermaphrodite coppiniae.

DISTRIBUTION IN SVALBARD

Adventfjorden, Hornsund, Rijpfjorden

WORLD DISTRIBUTION

cosmopolitan, Iceland, Greenland

DEPTH

5-148

SUBSTRATE

algae, Balanus sp., Bryozoa

REPRODUCTION

fixed gonophores

not observed in the Svalbard collection