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Mostly Colonial & Very Hardy;

The Sea Mats & Polyps That Are the Zoanthids; part 3 

 

By Bob Fenner  

Genus Parazoanthus

Parazoanthus sp., Zoanthid. Images in N. Sulawesi of unidentified colonial polyps.

Parazoanthus catenularis, Brown Sponge Zoanthid. Polyps of about 1/8" diameter bear 20 brown to yellow pointed tentacles, with oral disks that are darkened in their centers. Turks and Caicos.

Parazoanthus gracilis, Aquarium image. 

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Parazoanthus (now Umimayacanthus) parasiticus, the Sponge Zoanthid. Small (1/8" diameter) brown to yellowish brown to greenish tentacled polyps, with darkened centers, embedded in sponges... here in Cozumel on/in a Red Boring Sponge, Cliona delatrix.
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Umimayanthus parasiticus (formerly Parazoanthus parasiticus), The Sponge Zoanthid, usually found on purple vase and rope sponges, at right on a Niphates digitalis, the Pink Vase Sponge in Cozumel. Below in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 

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Parazoanthus swiftii, the Golden Zoanthid. 1/4" diameter polyps. Encrust several species of sponges. Here on a Brown Tube Sponge, Agelas conifera in the Bahamas and Cozumel. 

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Parazoanthus tunicans, the Hydroid Zoanthid. 1/4 " in size. Tropical West Atlantic. Grow on Feather Tree Hydroids... not toxic themselves... but don't touch the hydroid! Cozumel pix by Di.

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Parazoanthus sp. Differently colored polyps arise from the common mat that in turn covers over (is epizoic on) other sessile invertebrates... typically sponges, sea fans, black corals. Here in N. Sulawesi on the skeleton of a fan . Indo-West Pacific; East Africa to Indonesia. 

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