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Angular Sea Whip

Pterogorgia anceps

Description:

Photo take at -40 ft on the ocean bottom a large colony, highly branched, branches the ends occasionally become in a flattened blade.they can be very long. Polyps runes along the branches on the thing edges, olive color to brown an occasionally purple color, polyps are white. It can grow around 80 cm tall.

Habitat:

Inhabit on sand and rubble to patch reef. From Florida, all the Caribbean sea to north Brazil.

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Gerardo Aizpuru
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Gerardo Aizpuru

Mexico

Spotted on Dec 22, 2012
Submitted on Dec 22, 2012

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