Hebella dyssymetra

Size

Recognition Characters

Colonies stolonal creeping over back of hydrocaulus of hydroid substrate. Hydrorhiza wrinkled to fairly smooth. Hydrothecae arise from extremely short pedicels. Hydrothecae cornucopia-shaped with smooth walls. Hydranth has 14 tentacles.

Color

Habitat & Depth

Colonize and attach to other hydroids.

Distribution at GRNMS

May be common but unnoticeable because of small size. Attached to other hydroids such as Dynamena quadridentata or Sertularia sp..

Geographic Range

Wide Circumtropical distribution. Eastern and Western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans

Behavior & Notes

H. dyssymetra is mostly epiphytic on other species of hydroids.

Synonyms

References

Calder 1991