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Gorgonian help needed!

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Weird! This one had no bumpy polyps, it looked very smooth, slender and tangly. Is it a Gorgonian even?
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Weird! This one had no bumpy polyps, it looked very smooth, slender and tangly. Is it a Gorgonian even?

  • California Golden Gorgonian. This one is easy.
  • Looks like a California Golden because of that one polyp out, near the middle.
  • California Golden Gorgonian
  • Dunno? Polyps are in. But probably California Golden?
  • Another California Golden, with polyps retracted?
  • California Golden - because of the one area (middle, left) that has polyps out.
  • Brown Gorgonian
  • Brown Gorgonian
  • Brown Gorgonian
  • Brown Gorgonian?
  • California Golden Gorgonian in foreground, Brown in background?
  • No idea - polyps are in. But most likely California Golden?
  • Dying?
  • Dead or dying?
  • Maybe Brown, but dying?
  • ? ? ?
  • Weird! This one had no bumpy polyps, it looked very smooth, slender and tangly. Is it a Gorgonian even?
  • Red Gorgonian

  • pnwscuba

    on April 15, 2015

    Thanks Kevin. I know now it's a Red.

  • Kevin Lee

    on October 18, 2009

    Nice collection of gorgonians, Janna. This looks to be the Red Gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis. Check out same in this week's divebums gallery:
    http://week.divebums.com/2009/Oct12-2009/
    Cheers, k;-)

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