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Costazia ventricosa  (Rusty Bryozoan)

Photo of Costazia ventricosa by <a href="http://www.seastarsofthepacificnorthwest.info/">Neil McDaniel</a>
© Neil McDaniel (Photo ID #60982)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location Barkley Sound, BC Photographer Neil McDaniel
Habitat marine subtidal
Photo Date Upload Date February 10, 2014
Elevation (m) -5
UTM Zone # Latitude 48.9094444444444
UTM Easting Longitude -125.473055555556
UTM Northing Photo ID # 60982
Notes Rusty bryozoan. Forms hard, orange, lumpy, coral-like colonies along exposed coasts. Very common in Barkley Sound. The yellow branching bryozoan center-right frame is the Southern staghorn bryozoan, Diaperoforma californica.


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