Description: Microscopic with fine irregularly branched filaments forming a network between the cells of a host alga.

Habitat: Very rare. Endophytic in Desmarestia dresnayi and D. ligulata.

Distribution: Cos Clare and Donegal in Ireland, Co Devon in England and the Shetlands in Scotland. Europe: Atlantic coast of France and Germany.

Similar Species: Neevea reptans.

Distribution Map from NBN: Colacodictyon reticulatum at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Colacodictyon reticulatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Colacodictyon reticulatum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Colacodictyon reticulatum (Batters) Feldmann, 1955. AphiaID: 145687.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Proteorhodophytina; Stylonematophyceae; Stylonematales; Stylonemataceae; Colacodictyon