Eucratea loricata is an erect bryozoan forming tall dense clumps about 10 cm in height. Colonies are whitish-brown in colour, highly branched and are said to resemble miniature poplar trees. The species is able to colonise a variety of substrates, from the lower shore down to 75 m and occasionally deeper. Colonies may also be found washed up along the strand line.
 
The species occurs throughout world and may be locally common on British coasts.

 Eucratea loricata zooids form a tree-like colony up to 25 cm in height. The colony is whitish-brown and is attached to the substratum by a cluster of rhizoids. Branching is generally dichotomous, with branches arising at acute angles and all pairs in a branch in one plane. Individual zooids are elongated and narrower at their proximal or lower ends. They have no spines or avicularia.

Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), northern Gaspe waters, middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); boreal North Atlantic and in Arctic waters; Cobscook Bay

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone, British Isles, Calais, Chamcook, Cobscook Bay, Den Helder, Digby, Domburg, European waters (ERMS scope), Flemish Banks, Gulf of Maine, Ijmuiden, Irish Exclusive economic Zone, North Sea, North West Atlantic, Scheveningen, The Wolves, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone, Wimereux, Wissant

bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary

Depth range based on 288 specimens in 2 taxa.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 155 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 2937
  Temperature range (°C): -1.535 - 15.578
  Nitrate (umol/L): 0.681 - 14.805
  Salinity (PPS): 10.036 - 39.023
  Oxygen (ml/l): 4.518 - 8.575
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.091 - 1.044
  Silicate (umol/l): 1.537 - 19.161

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 2937

Temperature range (°C): -1.535 - 15.578

Nitrate (umol/L): 0.681 - 14.805

Salinity (PPS): 10.036 - 39.023

Oxygen (ml/l): 4.518 - 8.575

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.091 - 1.044

Silicate (umol/l): 1.537 - 19.161
 
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 Eucratea loricata is found attached to a wide variety of substrata, from lower shore to about 75 m and occasionally deeper. It is often washed up on the strand line.