Description: An encrusting calcified alga to 2 cm thick, sometimes unattached as balls of dense interlocked branches, or irregularly shaped.

Habitat: Sublittoral. Little information available.

Distribution: Reported in Ireland from Cos Cork, Galway and Mayo. Europe: Mediterranean and Spain.

Similar Species: When forming balls of interlocked branches is distinguished from L. duckeri which is more knobbly and L. fasciculatum which has more terete branches.

Key Identification Features:

• Little information available. May be in ball-form similar to Lithophyllum and Lithophyllum fasculastum.

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

iNaturalist: Lithophyllum dentatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Lithophyllum dentatum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Lithophyllum dentatum (Kützing) Foslie, 1898. AphiaID: 145146.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Corallinophycidae; Corallinales; Corallinineae; Lithophyllaceae; Lithophylloideae; Lithophylleae; Lithophyllum