Polyp: Colonies erect, regularly branched in one plain. Hydrocaulus geniculate with alternate hydrocladia. Hydrocladia divided into internodes with one to three pairs of sub-opposite hydrothecae. Hydrothecae adnate for most of their length, curved abruptly outwards distally; with two large rounded lateral marginal cusps and a smaller median adcauline one; operculum with two valves; with or without intrathecal teeth. Reproduction: Gonophores as fixed sporosacs. Gonothecae borne on hydrocladia or exceptionally on hydrocaulus; vase-shaped with smooth walls, oval in cross section. Ecology and distribution: Circumglobal species. Known from Bocas del Toro from STRI station dock, Hospital Point, Mangrove Inn, Almirante pilings, Cayo Zapatilla, Crawl Cay, near Laguna Bocatorito, near Manuguar Cay, Swans Cay, Drago 2, and Punta Caracol. Similar taxa: Dynamena disticha.
Bocas Species Database
Distribution: Virgin Islands, Klein Bonaire, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, Martinique, Trinidad, Colombia, Flórez González, Isla la Tortuga, Los Frailes, St. Kitts, St. Martin, Jamaica, Belize, and Panama.