Sea Whip
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
erect colony of marine animals of the phylum Cnidaria, with whiplike branches. The skeleton consists of a horny axis, overlaid with small calcareous bodies called spicules.
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! ...
White Sea Whip Junceella fragilis
Sea whips have a very similar structure to sea fans but grow up as a single tall stem.
Alternate name: Sea Whip
Category: Jellies, Anemones and kin view all from this category ...
They often swims vertically with their snouts down, which helps them to blend in with surrounding sea fans, pipe sponges and sea whips, thereby hiding from predators.
 See also: Sea Lion, Shark, Lion, Turtle, Shell
  
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