Description: A hydroid colony living on a riser at the Heather Alpha platform in the North Sea Item Type: Image Title: Colony of hydroids in the North Sea Species: Tubularia larynx Behaviour: Living on riser Site: Atlantic -- North SeaNorth Sea Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): approx 40 Countries: UK -- North Sea Habitat: Temperate Rig: Heather Alpha Project Partners: Rovtech, Lundin Petroleum, iicorr Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 24 May 2007
A young hydranth of Ectopleura larynx (Ellis & Solander, 1786)(Anthomedusae, Tubulariidae) next to Coryne muscoides (Linnaeus, 1761) taken near Marseille (Mediterranean). The picture covers about 12 mm. Ectopleura larynx has two whorls of filiform tentacles, but nevertheless belongs to the Capitata The author has granted permission to MarBEF/VLIZ to use this picture in ERMS and related biological databases hosted at VLIZ. Source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm
Vice county name: West Cork. Vice county no.: H03. Country: Eire. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: on Saccorhiza polyschides from the rapids. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".