Summary[edit] Description: English: A photograph of a tubular hydroid, Ectopleura crocea taken in 25m of water in False Bay Cape Town using a housed Fuji camera. Date: May 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Seascapeza.
"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."". "
Hydroids don't get a lot of love in the human world (nudibranchs are connoisseurs, of course), but they're often some of the most beautiful animals out there. They're also tiny, weird, and kind of hard to to ID. These aren't huge, aren't fouling, and don't have annulations below the medusae, so... Pinauay marina?