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
Latitude 48.9094444444444
Longitude -125.473055555556
Photo ID # 60982
Comments 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.