ricordea

[reefachu]

hey guys i was wondering is a riocordea a coral or mushroom. cause it looks like a coral to me

 

[Octoshark]

A mushroom, it has no calcareous skeleton, it is all tissue.

 

[shred5]

They fall under the order Corallimorpharians (mushroom corals)

They are coral but often refered to as false corals.

They are not a scleractinia (stony coral) or reef building coral meaning they do not lay down a coral skeleton.

Dave Polzin

 

[nvdiz]

i always thought a mushroom was a coral... and though rics are considered mushrooms, they're actually anemones.

 

[Octoshark]

i always thought a mushroom was a coral... and though rics are considered mushrooms, they're actually anemones.

I guess you can say rics cover the grey area between corals/mushrooms/anemones.

 

[noahm]

Unfortunately, (or not) the term coral has come to pretty much cover anything not fish, worm, mollusk, crustacean etc. If it is a ployp, or has proper polyps, you could easily argue that it can be called a 'coral', soft, hard etc. etc. And, since coral is not really a scientific term, no one will be really wrong or right... Unless they are wrong