04 Hermaea bifida

04 Hermaea bifida

Colour faded to yellowish as displaced from red algal food. This was the only specimen seen in eight years of shore work because fine red algae at LWS was not sampled and searched under magnification. Later, when that technique was applied, H. bifida was found in the majority of samples.
Length 16 mm, sublittoral, Orkney, August 1975.
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