Striped
corallimorph
Discosoma sp.
Family Discosomidae
updated
Nov 2019
Where
seen? These little brown disk-shaped animal with stripes
is sometimes encountered on our Southern shores, in coral rubble areas.
Features: Each polyp about 3-4cm
in diameter, sometimes seen in groups of 5-10. Brown with paler or
white stripes. Tentacles few, very short sparsely along the stripes.
The edge of the oral disk smooth. The mouth is usually held upturned. |
Terumbu Bemban, Jul 11
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Terumbu Bemban, Jul 11
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Pulau Hantu, Mar 07
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Pulau Hantu, Jul 07
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Pulau Hantu, Mar 05 |
*Species are difficult
to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, the animals are grouped by external features for convenience
of display.
Striped
corallimorphs on Singapore shores |
References
- Ren Min Oh, Mei Lin Neo, Nicholas Wei Liang Yap, Sudhanshi Sanjeev Jain, Ria Tan, Chaolun Allen Chen and Danwei Huang Citizen science meets integrated taxonomy to uncover the diversity and distribution of Corallimorpharia in Singapore, The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Volume 67, Pp. 306-321.
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