Collected: About a kilometer offshore of Assateague Island, VA in early June, 2004, just above the bottom using an epibenthic sled with a 363 um mesh.ollecte 153 um

Notes: Margelopsis is remarkable for having a free-swimming hydroid stage. The smaller reddish structures on the interior may be hydroids budding off from the manubrium. This species is seldom reported in the recent literature, but it was quite abundant in these collections. The red stain is Rose Bengal.

Collected and photographed by: Marilyn Yorgey, Goucher College. Identified by Dale Calder, Senior Curator (Invertebrate Zoology) in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum.