| Colonies
10-20cm. Corallites forming meandering valleys with separate walls.
Tentacles with a U-shaped tip. Colours blue and brown with bluish
tips. Rarely seen on our Southern shores. |
Colonies
10-20cm. Corallites trumpet-shaped. Tentacles with U-shaped tips.
Colours green, brown and purple with white or bluish tips. Sometimes
seen on our Southern shores. |
Colony
10-20cm. Corallites trumpet-shaped. Tentacles are branched at the
tips into masses of rounded and U-shaped tips. Colours green and brown
with white or bluish tips. Rarely seen on our Southern shores |
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| Skeleton
disc-shaped (generally 10-15cm), lies unattached to the bottom. Thin
walls with rounded 'teeth' radiate from the centre. Single slit-like
mouth. Tentacles thick and long (looks like udon noodles) with a bulbous
white tip. Colours usually brown but sometimes also bright green or
bluish. Sometimes seen on some of our shores. |
Colonies
10-20cm. Corallites trumpet-shaped. Tentacles with rounded tips. Colours
beige, brown and blue. Rarely seen on our Southern shores. |
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Colonies
10-12cm, boulder-shaped or encrusting. Polyps (0.5-1cm in diameter),
24 tentacles, short body column (0.5-1cm). Corallites circular or
hexagonal. Colours seen include purple, pink, greenish, yellow and
brown. Commonly seen on many of our shores, especially on our Southern
shores. |
Colonies
10-12cm, boulder-shaped or clusters of short, fat columns with rounded
tops. Polyps (0.5-1cm in diameter), 24 tentacles, long body column
(2-5cm). Colours seen include purple, pink, brown and bluish. Commonly
seen on many of our shores, especially on our Southern shores. |
