Hitch-hiker on shroom rock, ID help...

[Patman]

I got some nice green shrooms on a chunk of rock teeming with life...mini-stars, etc...and noted a patch of Xenia like growth..but the polyps aren't xenia now that I see them extended....any ideas?

[wasabi]

cant really make it out looks something like a clove polyp.

[Patman]

Thanks....I'll try and get a better shot


Pat

[blckmstng]

perhaps some kind of goniopora or porites?

[Patman]

After looking in some texts...they do look like clove polyps....Clavularia sp...

Thanks

Pat

[OodleyBoodely]

Are they on a purplish pink mat or a brown mat? If on pink they are probably theClavularia sp. if brown they might be encrusting gorgonian. Need another photo if you can.