[Coral-List] Coral polyp identification (organism of unknown identity)

[Szmant, Alina]

Looks like an anemone to me. Seems to have a pedal disk which an actinula larva would not have.


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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
Professor of Marine Biology
Coral Reef Research Program, Center for Marine Science
University of North Carolina Wilmington
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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml..noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Diego Fernando Lozano Cortés [di8go11 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:20 PM
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Coral polyp identification (organism of unknown       identity)

Hi Donald,
Thank you very much for your help and interest. Until now I had received two responses. Ron Karlson who thinks it's a hydrozoan actinula larva, and Gustav Paulay who thinks it's an anemone (and not a hydrozoan because of the pharynx that is visible in the photo). At the moment I have no data on the size of the organism, but this was collected in a trawl from a depth of 30 meters to surface.

Link: http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h241/carlosgm/Polipo-Gorgona2006.jpg

Thank you very much.
Cheers!

Diego Fernando Lozano-Cortés
Senior Biology Student
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia (Southamerica)
Coral Reef Ecology Research Group
di8go11 at hotmail.com

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