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Encrusting Gorgonian

 

Aspect:  Encrusting surfaces bearing hair-like polyps and tentacles resembling those of Corky Sea Finger (qv), but generating carpeted surfaces. When polyps are retracted, the underlying "skin" looks slightly goose-pimpled.
Population: Common.
Notable feature: A close look will reveal the darker hair-thin pinnules along all the tentacles.
Environment: Usually found at around 10 to 30 metres on rocks and boulders.
Behaviour:  -                          
  • French designation: Gorgone Encroûtante
  • Latin designation: Erythropodium caribaeorum
  • Creole designation: -
  • Latin family: Anthothelidae
  • Size (cm): ~150
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