Description: Small brown algae.

Habitat: Very rare. Sublittoral to 20 m. depth.

Distribution: Recorded from only a few sites: south-west of England in Co Cornwall, Isle of Man and the Mediterranean.

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

iNaturalist: Choristocarpus tenellus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Choristocarpus tenellus

WoRMS: Choristocarpus tenellus at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Choristocarpus tenellus Zanardini, 1860. AphiaID: 145887.

Classification: Biota; Chromista; Harosa; Heterokonta; Ochrophyta; Phaeophyceae; Discosporangiophycidae; Discosporangiales; Choristocarpaceae; Choristocarpus