Image of California hydrocoral
Description:
Here are two colonies, pink and purple, of California Hydrocoral--they are not anthozoan 'true' corals. These colonies were at 18 m depth, but the species extends into deep water. The colonies have separate sexes, they are slow-growing, and these could be 100 years old.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Hydrozoa (hydrozoans)
- Hydroidolina
- Anthoathecata
- Filifera
- Stylasteridae
- Stylaster (Lace corals)
- Stylaster californicus (California hydrocoral)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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