Cladocoryne floccosa

Stems simple, up to 2 mm high, perisarc with a few proximal annulations, smooth thereafter, thinning a little and tapering below hydranth.

Hydranth with several whorls of branched tentacles bearing many globular capitula armed with nematocysts; hypostome clavate.

Gonophores large, globular, borne among oral tentacles.

Cnidome:

i) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, diameter 5-7 µm, very abundant.

ii) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, 11-12 x 10-12 µm, shaft 8 µm, indistinct, abundant.

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.

Colour: white (preserved material).

Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters.

Subtidal, epizoic on hydroids and other invertebrate substrates.