Artificial Reef Field Guide: Celleporina sp
Common Name | Bryozoan |
Code(s) | COST |
Id Number | 484 |
Taxa | Invertebrate |
Mobility | Sessile |
Colonial / Solitary | Colonial |
Typical Substrate Type | Hard |
Species Description
Nodules are upright and singular, sometimes forked. Color usually reddish-orange. Form colonies. Height to about 50 mm.
Species Habitat
Commonly encrusts blades of the giant kelp Macrocystis along the California coast.
Species Range
Low intertidal to 100 m subtidal; British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.