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Sea Mat Zoanthid - Palythoa tuberculosa Pretty and dangerous. It produces palytoxin, which may be fatal for humans! Fall,Geotagged,Indonesia,Palythoa tuberculosa,Sea Mat Zoanthid Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Sea Mat Zoanthid - Palythoa tuberculosa

Pretty and dangerous. It produces palytoxin, which may be fatal for humans!

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    Ferdy Christant
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    So glad the common name Zoanthid explains exactly what we're looking at. At first I thought you found an alien treasure room, but now I'm thinking "oh, it's only a zoanthid. big deal. so common". Posted 5 years ago
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      Patomarazul
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      Hahaha! Well, zoanthids are also a bit variable in shape so at firat I also could not narrow down what it was and I was also thinking of maybe a tunicate...I am happy I could find its ID. And in fact is good to know that they are toxic as you never know if you would brush against one of these while diving :-) Posted 5 years ago

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The Sea Mat Zoanthid

It is a zoanthid of the family Sphenopidae.

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Similar species: Zoantharia
Species identified by Patomarazul
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Uploaded Jul 22, 2020. Captured Nov 1, 2019 05:12 in Indonesia.
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  • TG-5
  • f/4.0
  • 1/80s
  • ISO200
  • 7.86mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.