[Coral-List] unknown coral

[Patti Nicoll]

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? 

 

Thanks,

Patti Nicoll

 

 

Patricia B Nicoll

Form 7 Biology

Outdoor Education Coordinator

Pre-AP Consultant

Saint Mary's Hall School

9401 Starcrest Drive

San Antonio, TX  78217

210 483 9293

mailto:pnicoll at smhall.org

http://stm10815-01.k12.fsu.edu/ <http://stm10815-01.k12.fsu.edu/>