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Old 10/06/2007, 08:26 PM
flinka flinka is offline
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ID Please

Can anyone ID these corals please. I think they are some sort of soft coral. When they "open up", at the end of each "tube", there is a very small white polyp no wider than the tube width itself.

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Mitch

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Old 10/06/2007, 08:33 PM
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Snake polyps... I think they are a type of zoanthid
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Old 10/06/2007, 08:43 PM
Gary Majchrzak Gary Majchrzak is offline
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Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Zoantharia
Order: Zoanthidea
Family: Zoanthidae
Genus: Isaurus
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Old 10/06/2007, 08:45 PM
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Thank you both for the very quick ID.

Mitch
 


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