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The Pulsing Soft Corals, Family Xeniidae, Part 1

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Xeniid in the Red Sea, DF Pic

 

<To do: make chart differentiating different Xeniid genera: Criteria: size of colonies, arrangement of polyps, number of rows of pinnules...>

Genus Anthelia Lamarck 1816: Clusters of polyps all arising from a united stolon base that is soft, ribbon-like. Polyp pinnules in rows of 1-4 in number; slightly contractile, not retractile; some don't even respond to touch. Unlike Heteroxenia and Xenia species, Anthelia colonies branch at their base of attachment.

Anthelia sp. (perhaps A. flava) N. Sulawesi. 

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Anthelia glauca, Red Sea.

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