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Giant Sun Polyp

Palythoa

Photo by sttweets
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Spotted in the Amsterdam zoo.

Species ID Suggestions

Button Polyp

Protopolythoa sp.

Comments (4)

Glad to help @sttweets. Still not sure though of the exact species and will try to do some more research. Hope to find a similar one during our next dive weekend. Love your photo sets as well :-)
@Eric Noora, Thanks, I'll check it out and will update the ID
This is incredible..shape and colors
Other interesting reads :-) http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/799_Protopalythoa_sp.%2004.htm http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reef/zoanthids/ProtopalythoaGrandis.php

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