bamboo

A white bamboo coral with extended polyps (pink centers - also in the Octocorallia) from the coral garden. At the base of this bamboo coral, a yellow zoanthid has ‘moved in’ where the bamboo polyps have died off (note many more tentacles on zoanthid - lower right). Image courtesy of AquaPix, Ian MacDonald, Expedition to the Deep Slope.

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