Orange sun coral - Tubastrea sp. ?
![Image of Tubastraea Lesson 1830](https://content.eol.org/data/media/d8/56/d0/542.b880997f985fb92ebaf19eaf3a014087.580x360.jpg)
Description:
Thisi is a large polyp stony coral found in Australian waters. Even though it is a stony coral, it is solitary so it's skeletons do not form reefs. It differs from many other stony corals in that it does not contain symbiotic algae - zooxanthellae - so does not derive food from sunlight. This means it can live in deeper waters. You can see in this photo that the polyp tentacles are clear - that is due to the absence of algae cells.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Hexacorallia (hexacorallians)
- Scleractinia (stony corals)
- Dendrophylliidae (dendrophylliid corals )
- Tubastraea
- Tubastraea faulkneri (Orange Turret Coral)
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