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Colonial (Ref. 19). This is an attached species (Ref. 3123). Known from mangroves (Ref. 86642, 86643), tidal inlets, sheltered areas of bays, exposed areas of bays, including any ledges at their entrance, sounds, caves and surface or near surface water layers, including porpitids and the halopelagic Sargassum sp. fauna (Ref. 813). Also found in Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, in patch reefs, mangrove islands, Thalassia sp. beds, sand trough, outer ridge and fore-reef slopes on algae, Thalassia sp. beds, mangrove roots, floating Sargassum sp., hydroids and substrates composed of dead corals and gorgonians at depths of 0.5 to 31 m. As with other hydroids, this species exhibits a pelagic medusoid stage (Ref. 87156).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Species exhibits both asexual and sexual reproduction by budding during hydroid stage and release of gametes in medusae stages (Ref. 1663, p. 23, 28). Period of reproductive maturity recorded for Carrie Bow Cay, Belize is 24th of June, during which the sample collected had gonophores or medusa buds (Ref. 87156).