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> Cirrhipathes anguina
Updated 1/27/2013
Family
Antipathariidae
HAWAII
Cirrhipathes
anguina
Wire Coral Shrimps, Haleiwa Harbor, 25 feet |
Wire Coral Goby, Haleiwa Harbor, 25 feet
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Red Hill, Hawaii, 100 feet |
Honaunau, Hawaii, 140 feet
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Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 30 feet
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Maui Ocean Center
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YO-257 wreck, Oahu, 90 feet
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Lanai Lookout, Oahu, 50 feet |
Sea Tiger wreck, Oahu, 110 feet
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Molokini Back Wall, 80 feet |
Moku Manu Pinnacle, Oahu, 120 feet |
Portlock, Oahu, 30 feet |
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WIRE CORAL
These odd stick-like
corals are common, protruding from current-swept vertical faces & rocky outcrops
deeper than 20 feet. Polyps present on all sides. Attains at
least 5 feet. It will fluoresce neon green but this color is lost
in flash photographs, color variable, usually greenish-brown or
rust. Some corals host commensal gobies,
shrimp,
or crabs.
Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.
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