Description: Tough tubular and gelatinous with a few dichotomies.

Distribution: British Isles: known only from Lough Hyne, Co. Cork, Ireland. Further afield: Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

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

iNaturalist: Nemastoma canariensis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Nemastoma canariense

WoRMS: Nemastoma canariensis at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Nemastoma canariense (Kützing) Montagne, 1856. AphiaID: 371034.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Nemastomatales; Nemastomataceae; Nemastoma