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Stylantheca porphyra
Encrusting Hydrocoral
(shown with Asterina miniata)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0906 0263 (2006-09-08)

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date of photo 1985

location Open coast, Monterey Peninsula (Monterey County, California, US)

family Stylasteriidae

order Stylasterina

class Hydrozoa

habitat Marine

notes Photographed at 18 m depth, this encrusting form of hydrocoral typically forms sheets with tiny pits containing feeding polyps surrounded by stinging zooids. Escaping planulae larvae can start new colonies.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Encrusting Hydrocoral (photographer)

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