Cool reef builders article on Zoanthids.

[coralfarmer]

http://************.com/2012/10/08/species-zoanthids-florida-waters/

 

[coralfarmer]

Grrr it's at reef builders dot com

 

[kodiak23]

Its cool seeing all the scientific names and pictures that go with them. It would be awesome if there was a list of many of our common Z&P's with their scientific names, similiar to how we know many of our SPS's. Then we can start to group what each species likes in terms of flow, light, dirtyness, feeding, etc. Maybe this already exists? Has anybody ever seen all these names with pics that go with them? Good stuff.

(a) Palythoa aff. variabilis 1558; (b) Palythoa grandis specimen 1559; (c) Zoanthus sociatus specimen 1579 and (d) specimen 1574; (e) Zoanthus aff. pulchellus specimen 1575 and (f) specimen 1578; (g) Zoanthus pulchellus specimen 1572, (h) specimen 1576, and (i) specimen 1577; (j) Zoanthus solanderi specimen 1571; (k) Isaurus tuberculatus specimen 1580; (l) Terrazoanthus sp. specimen 1581.

 

[coralfarmer]

Where did you get the above info?

 

[coralfarmer]

I see the Isaurus sp. pictured in a lot of books. Because of it's unique shape. It's cool they open after the lights go out.

 

[kodiak23]

Where did you get the above info?

The artical you posted had a link to the actual study.

<A href="http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/856079/"target=_blank>The Study</A>

<A href="http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/856079/fig1/"target=_blank>Images</A>

 

[coralfarmer]

Cool thnx