Euphyllia paraancora

Nudi's Retreat, Lembeh.

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Lisa Kimmerling

Lion

WOW! This is so magical! Posted 3 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Haha, agreed! I've been sitting here, refreshing the screen...waiting for Marta to post more about this. I don't even know what it is, but it's beautiful!! Posted 3 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    And, yay - done! My *impatience* has paid off.
    
    Lovely coral, Marta! Posted 3 years ago
3. Patomarazul
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks! :-) Posted 3 years ago
4. 1. Patomarazul
    
    Lion
    
    It is an animal, believe it or not ;-D Posted 3 years ago

abhitap

Lion

This is so so lovely!! Posted 3 years ago
1. Patomarazul
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks for your appreciation! Posted 3 years ago

The Branching Hammer coral

Euphyllia paraancora is a species of large-polyped stony coral in the family Euphyllidae.
It has especially long tentacles that are with tipped anchor or hammerhead-like knobs, and also typically comes in various shades of brown and fluorescent green, with the tentacle tips often being lighter or different colored. Specimens bearing tentacles of other colors can be found at times, too. However, this species has a branching (phaceloid) skeleton rather than a flabello-meandroid skeleton.

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Similar species: Stony Corals

Species identified by Patomarazul