Halipteris willemoesi  (White Sea Pen)

© Neil McDaniel (Photo ID #15661)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Howe Sound sill
Photographer	Neil McDaniel
Habitat	subtidal, mud
Photo Date
Upload Date	January 04, 2012
Elevation (m)	-25
Latitude	49.5688888888889
Longitude	-123.286388888889
Photo ID #	15661
Comments	The Sea Whip is a slender, very tall sea whip reaching 2.5 m in length. Common below 25 m on mud substrates such as the Howe Sound sill. Not capable of retraction into the substrate. One of the largest sea pens known. Identification by Dr. Gary Williams. See Williams, 1995, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (1995), 113: 93-140.