[Coral-List] White Tubipora
Mike Gawel
Mike.Gawel at guamepa.net
Sun Jan 14 21:52:04 EST 2007
Reply to Michel Claereboudt:
Almost twenty years ago an excellent and respected Octocoral taxonomist,
Dr. J. Verseveldt, requested Tubipora specimens collected from
throughout their range. I sent him some different specimens from
Micronesia that seemed to represent more than a single species. I
believe he planned to revise the genus. Unfortunately, he passed away
before he finished his Tubipora studies, I believe. He was associated
with the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands and perhaps his associates there
have his specimens and draft work on Tubipora.
Mike Gawel
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From: Michel Claereboudt <michelc at squ.edu.om>
Subject: [Coral-List] White Tubipora
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While surveying coral communities in southern Oman (northern Arabian
Sea), I found several specimen of what appears to be a white Tubipora.
The general appearance of the colony is similar to that of Tubipora
musica with similar polyps and skeleton but :
1- the skeleton is white with no hint of the typical dark red color
of T. musica
2- the skeleton is more fragile ( as far as I remember when
collecting T. musica in PNG).
The polyps definitively likely zooxanthellae (brown coloration when
preserved in alcohol).
Has anyone any info on this animal ?
Michel Claereboudt
Sultan Qaboos University
Dept. Marine Science and Fisheries
College Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Box 34
Al-Khod 123
Sultanate of Oman
Tel: (968) 2414 1249 / (968) 2414 1246
Fax: (968) 244 13418
michelc at squ.edu.om / mclaereboudt at mac.com
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