[Coral-List] unknown coral

Ron Huber coastwatch at acadia.net
Mon Dec 29 10:31:44 EST 2003


Patty, 
 that sounds like a coralline algae to me.
Check out these two website; you may find what your specimen there.

Types  of coralline algae
http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/clines/kinds.htm

Nongeniculate coralline algae webpage: 
http://www.mbari.org/~conn/botany/reds/nongencor/home.htm

- Ron Huber


At 06:27 PM 12/27/03 -0600, Patti Nicoll wrote:
>I am teacher and I take my class to the coast every year for field work
>and a general marine biology experience. There is a small white
>calcareous coral, lacking zooxanthellae, found in the intercoastal area
>around Port Aransas, Texas. The polyps are about 3-5mm and the skeletons
>are very crystalline in appearance growing colonially in a bunched form
>on any hard substrate it can find (usally an empty shell). I have always
>thought that it was some kind of octocoral but I have never been able to
>truly identify it. Do you have any ideas as to what it might be? 
>
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>Thanks,
>
>Patti Nicoll
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>Patricia B Nicoll
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