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Genus Heterogorgia:
Heterogorgia uatumani, Golden Sea Spray. To a foot
in size. Light brown to golden thick rods and polyps. Fan-shaped colonies. Roatan 2016 |
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Genus Iciligorgia:
Iciligorgia schrammi, Deepwater Sea Fan. To 5 feet
in size. Reddish orange fans with light colored and polyps. Roatan 2016 |
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Genus Muricea:
Muricea laxa, Delicate Spiny Sea Rod. Tall
colonies that are bushy, branched in many planes, with hard calyces
(protuberances, spines...) that extend out and upward with
branches. Whitish, yellowish with white polyps. Aquarium photos. |
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Muricea sp. Robust Gorgonian. Thick, individual
branches; up to 1.7 feet tall. To about 100 foot depths. Cabo 2016 pix. |
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Genus Muricella:
Muricella sp. Large, intricately
inter-branched species (up to more than a meter across). Many
polyps, form distinct bumps on branches, contrast in color
(red/pink against grey to white branches. West Pacific;
Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea. N. Sulawesi pix. |
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Genus Muriceopsis:
Muriceopsis flavida, Rough Sea Plume. Bushy
colonies made up of tall branches or many small branchlets that
extend in all directions (not uni-planar). St. Lucia and Jamaica
pix. |
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Genus Pacifigorgia:
Pacifigorgia sp. Brown (and other apparent colors)
or Pacific Sea Fan/s. Closely cross-branched unilaminar blades with
polyps. To 2.5 feet tall, and 75 foot depths. Here in Cabo in 2016. |
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Genus Plexaura:
Plexaura homomalla, Black Sea Rod. Bushy,
planar colonies. Usually branch laterally (versus dichotomously).
Have light brown to yellow polyps against dark brown/black
stalks/rinds. Bahamas pix. |
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Genus Plexaurella:
Plexaurella nutans, Giant Slit-Pore Sea Rod.
Tall colonies with thick stalks, not much branching. When closed,
polyp openings like small open, raised slit-like openings. Tobago
image. |
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Genus Pseudoplexaura:
Pseudoplexaura sp. Porous Sea Rods.
Definitive genus detail are small rounded openings in rind when pale polyps are
retracted. Variable in appearance, color. Mostly dichotomous
asymmetrical low occuring branch division. Brown, grey, tan to light purplish in
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Pseudoplexaura sp. St Thomas 2014. TiffB pic |
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