Hydroids

Pink-mouth hydroid, Tubularia sp. <br />
Note pink & white reproductive structures, the newly liberated actinula (the creeping larvae generation of the hydroid) from the maternal gonophore and the young hydranth (feeding zooid) after settlement. <br />
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ID thanks to Greg Jensen<br />
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Seven Tree, Browning Pass, British Columbia

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Pink-mouth hydroid, Tubularia sp.
Note pink & white reproductive structures, the newly liberated actinula (the creeping larvae generation of the hydroid) from the maternal gonophore and the young hydranth (feeding zooid) after settlement.

ID thanks to Greg Jensen

Seven Tree, Browning Pass, British Columbia

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