How appropriate that we encountered a wonderful hydroid today (4 July 2019) whose tentacles look just like a fireworks display.
We hadn't seen the polyps of this species before, so I'll share additional details about it in a future post.
For now, we chose a few images to celebrate the holiday. If you're curious, these hydroids are small — the individuals pictured were ~15 mm (0.6 inches) long. We found them in the low rocky intertidal zone.
Below is a view showing the entire polyps, from the base attached to the rock to the rounded cluster of capitate tentacles at the top. Meet Hydrocoryne bodegensis, which was originally described from specimens collected on one of the Bodega Harbor jetties.
Happy Fourth of July!
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