Conopeum seurati is an encrusting bryozoan that forms small colonies on seagrasses, shells and other hard surfaces.

When a larva of Conopeum seurati settles on a suitable surface, it undergoes metamorphosis into a zooid known as an ancestrula.

Each individual zooid bears a lophophore, the characteristic feeding apparatus of bryozoans, with fifteen or sixteen ciliated tentacles, used to filter phytoplankton.

It usually forms colonies on seagrasses, ditch grasses, floating seaweed, mussels, oysters and man-made structures.

These larvae are planktonic and drift with the currents for some time before settling and undergoing metamorphosis into ancestrulae to found new colonies.