hydroid

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The oval-shaped, flat creatures with tiny blue tentacles may look like little jellyfish but are in fact hydroids called Velella velella, more commonly known as “by-the-wind-sailors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Cardinalfish zip by a loggerhead turtle as it rests among feathery invertebrates called hydroids.

From National Geographic • Nov. 16, 2015

Advertisement Advertisement The seabed, which after dredging looked as riven and empty as a plowed field, is also recovering, with more seaweed, sponges and hydroids, and there are more bottom dwellers, like crabs and starfish.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2015

They include sponges, jellyfish, earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, molluscs, squid, marine worms, hydroids, siphonophores, sea pens, cteno-phores, corallines, myriapods, balanoglos-sids, ascidians, fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sea-spiders, starfishes, hydroids that look like moss, sea-anemones, many varieties of worms, mussels and crabs are all living here.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam