A white bamboo coral with extended polyps (with pink centers; also in the sub-class 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 the zoanthid (at lower right). Image courtesy of
AquaPix, Ian MacDonald, Expedition to the Deep Slope.
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