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Red thinnest gorgonian - ID?
Please, help to ID:
Thin red gorgonian with white polyps. Branches are ~1mm thick. Polyps are on the sides of the branches, left and right, not the whole branch, covered by polyps. Polyps remind chili coral polyps: red collar under the tentacles. General size - may be trice thinner, than Swiftia, and red finger Diodogorgia is for comparison. Pardon quality, tomorrow try to do better. At least is it non-photosynthetic, as I hope, or will require bright light. Thanks. |
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Thinnigorgia sp.
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And, if seriously - what could it be? Never seen anything like that. Today the store was loaded by unfamiliar gorgonians. Pity, that not by different scleronephthyas or lemnalias.
The closes thing, I found so far, is Leptogorgia punicea http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/sertc/o...ia_punicea.htm "open pinnate branching and prominent calyces which are in double rows on two sides of the branches." "height of less than 10 cm, and the branches are 1mm wide exclusive of calyces." The similar looking are Leptogorgia miniata and Lophogorgia ruberrima, but on photos they are covered by polyps everywhere, not just on sides. Recognition for L. miniata: "Small openly pinnate branching colonies. Commonly branches in a single plane, but can be somewhat bushy. Low, blunt calyces in single rows along the two edges of outer branches" http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/g...ta&filaindex=4 Nothing from this list of photoID: http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/fr/...e_gorgones.htm |
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