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Ocean Of Color For The Aquarium by Blane Perun,
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Aquarist
Mostly Colonial
& Very Hardy;
The Sea Mats
& Polyps That Are the Zoanthids; part 3
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Genus Parazoanthus:
| Parazoanthus sp., Zoanthid. Images in N.
Sulawesi of unidentified colonial polyps. |
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| Parazoanthus catenularis, Brown Sponge Zoanthid.
Polyps of about 1/8" diameter bear 20 brown to yellow pointed tentacles,
with oral disks that are darkened in their centers. Turks and Caicos. |
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| Parazoanthus gracilis, Aquarium
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| Parazoanthus (now Umimayacanthus)
parasiticus, the Sponge
Zoanthid. Small (1/8" diameter) brown to yellowish brown to greenish tentacled polyps,
with darkened centers,
embedded in sponges... here in Cozumel on/in a Red Boring Sponge,
Cliona delatrix. |
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| Umimayanthus parasiticus (formerly Parazoanthus parasiticus), The Sponge
Zoanthid, usually found on purple vase and rope sponges, at right on a Niphates digitalis, the Pink
Vase Sponge in Cozumel. Below in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. |
 
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| Parazoanthus swiftii, the Golden Zoanthid.
1/4" diameter polyps. Encrust several species of sponges. Here
on a Brown Tube Sponge, Agelas conifera in the Bahamas and
Cozumel. |
 
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| Parazoanthus tunicans, the Hydroid Zoanthid.
1/4 " in size. Tropical West Atlantic. Grow on Feather Tree
Hydroids... not toxic themselves... but don't touch the
hydroid! Cozumel pix by Di. |
 
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| Parazoanthus sp. Differently
colored polyps arise from the common mat that in turn covers over
(is epizoic on) other sessile invertebrates... typically sponges,
sea fans, black corals. Here in N. Sulawesi on the skeleton of a
fan . Indo-West Pacific; East Africa to Indonesia. |
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