Description: Usually grows as small patches with a deep rose-pink colour and a conulose surface. There are no spicules.

Habitat: On the low shore under boulders and in the shallow sublittoral in caves or beneath overhangs.

Distribution: Littoral to 640m depth. Atlantic; North Sea; Channel; Mediterranean; etc.

Key Identification Features:

• Deep rose-pink colour
• Conulose surface

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

iNaturalist: Aplysilla rosea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Aplysilla rosea at World Register of Marine Species.