Description: Small filaments forming tufts to 15 cms long, monosiphonous with many short stiff ramuli.

Habitat: Rare. Usually epiphytic.

Distribution: Recorded from sites scattered around the British Isles including the Shetlands and the Channel Islands. Europe: Portugal, Spain, Netherlands. Greenland. Further afield: the Canary Islands.

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

iNaturalist: Acinetospora crinita at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Acinetospora crinita at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Acinetospora crinita (Carmichael) Sauvageau, 1899. AphiaID: 145398.

Classification: Biota; Chromista; Harosa; Heterokonta; Ochrophyta; Phaeophyceae; Fucophycidae; Ectocarpales; Acinetosporaceae; Acinetospora