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Gorgonian corals - Received from Wael in Jordan
Q: Tell me about gorgonians, their classification, their distribution, feeding mechanism, and how to identify them.
Flamingo tongues are carnivores specialized in eating the flesh of gorgonians. They use a rasp-like tongue called a radula to scrape away the coral tissue, leaving behind the naked gorgonian skeleton.
encrusting gorgonian (Cladiella sp.)
feather duster (Sabella penicillus)
feather star (Himerometra palmata)
finger coral (Sinularia sp.)
finger coral (Montipora digitata)
fire shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
flame scallop (Lima scabra) ...
Sea whips (and their relatives, the sea fans and gorgonians)grow very slowly. In some areas, fishing trawlers snag and destroy many sea fans in their nets-some trawled near Nova Scotia were over six feet tall and 500 years old! ...
Sponges, algae, bryozoans, zooantharians, gorgonians, and tunicates
INCUBATION:
Species exhibits dioecism. Fertilization is external. Species is open water/substratum egg scatterer. Spawning primarily occurs in late summer.
Feeds on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians, and tunicates.
Life History
Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usually both members vigorously defend their areas against neighboring pairs.
Algae, seagrass, hydrozoans, gorgonians, colonial anemones, and tunicates
INCUBATION:
No data ...
 See also: Coral, Sponge, Tunicate, Shrimp, Shark
  
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