Bamboo corals like this one spotted during Dive 04 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration are colonial, which means that each polyp is a separate animal. Each polyp has eight tentacles, which is characteristic of an octocoral.
Bamboo Coral
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration. Download larger version (jpg, 1.2 MB).
Bamboo corals like this one spotted during Dive 04 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration are colonial, which means that each polyp is a separate animal. Each polyp has eight tentacles, which is characteristic of an octocoral.
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