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Macrorhynchia philippina
Kirchenpauer 1872. Fire or Stinging Hydroid. Branching feathers of equal
length up to 15 cm. long. Dark stems w/ contrasting polyps. Very painful
to touch. Circumtropical. Here in the upper Red Sea 2019. |
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Nausithoe punctata Kolliker 1853. "0.9
to 1.5 cm. wide, discodial, central disk thick, without radiating furrows,
finely punctured; gastral filaments not grouped in clusters; large gonads."
"Members of the class Scyphozoa are gonochoric. Life cycle: Egg is laid by
the adult medusa which later develops into a free-living planula, then to a
scyphistoma to a strobila, and lastly to a free-living young medusa "
https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Nausithoe-punctata.html Here
scyphistomes are infesting a sponge in the Red Sea 2019. |
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Astreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck 1816).
Smooth, hemispherical colonies. Evenly spaced corallites that are exsert
(pointed out) with rounded openings. Most common species. Red Sea 2019.
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Echinopora fructiculosa (Ehrenberg 1834). Dome shaped
colonies of interlocking branches. Branches are single tubular corallites
with lateral budding. Corallites 5-8 mm. Color pinkish brown w/ light
colored ends. Red Sea 2019.
http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/speciesfactsheetsummary/echinopora-fruticulosa/
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