Umum
<p>Stems simple, up to 2 mm high, perisarc with a few proximal annulations, smooth thereafter, thinning a little and tapering below hydranth.</p><p>Hydranth with several whorls of branched tentacles bearing many globular capitula armed with nematocysts; hypostome clavate.</p><p>Gonophores large, globular, borne among oral tentacles.</p> <p>Cnidome:</p> <p>i) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, diameter 5-7 µm, very abundant.</p> <p>ii) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, 11-12 x 10-12 µm, shaft 8 µm, indistinct, abundant.</p> <p>iii) Macrobasic euryteles, capsule 66-75 x 25-30 µm, tubule long, thick, unarmed proximally, with distal spirals of spines and spear-shaped tip armed with spines; in capitate tentacles.</p><p> </p><p>Colour: white (preserved material).</p>
Sumber: Cnidaria
Distribusi
<p>Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters.</p>
Sumber: Cnidaria
Habitat
<p>Subtidal, epizoic on hydroids and other invertebrate substrates.</p>
Sumber: Cnidaria
Distribusieng
Distribution in South America: polyp — Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, at 0.04 ° S 91.55 ° W in Isla Isabela, at 2.19 ° S 80.90 ° W in Santa Elena Bay (Fraser 1938 a, 1948; Calder et al. 2003); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil, at 3.54 ° S 38.8 ° W, from 8.50 ° S to 27.14 ° S (Migotto 1996; Grohmann 1997, 2006; Grohmann et al. 1997, 2003; Calder & Maÿal 1998; Migotto et al. 2002; Oliveira 2003; Oliveira et al. 2006; Oliveira & Marques 2007, 2011; Shimabukuro 2007; Maronna et al. 2008, abstract; Cunha & Jacobucci 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Miranda et al. 2011, 2015; Fernandez et al., 2015). Habitat: polyp — on marine rocky shores and estuarine region, from intertidal zone to 22 m depth, on algae, fouling, other hydroids, decapod, sea urchin, sandstone reef (Fraser 1938 a; Migotto 1996; Calder & Maÿal 1998; Calder et al. 2003; Oliveira 2003; Oliveira et al. 2006; Oliveira & Marques 2007, 2011; Shimabukuro 2007; Cunha & Jacobucci 2010; Fernandez et al., 2015).
