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B. elegans is a solitary species of cup coral. The polyps are mostly bright orange and about 1 cm (0.4 in) in diameter, though a yellow form also exists. The polyp is large and fleshy with tapering tentacles bearing groups of stinging cells. The polyp can almost completely retract into its stony corallite cup. This coral can be distinguished from the corallimorph Corynactis californica, which it somewhat resembles, by its stony skeleton, and from Caryophyllia alaskensis, another stony coral found in this habitat, by its brighter colour (C. alaskensis is beige). The sexes are separate in this coral. Fertilisation takes place inside the female's gastrovascular cavity, and the larvae are brooded there. They are later released as worm-like orange larvae and settle nearby. Learn more about Balanophyllia Elegans


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Animalia: Cnidaria: Scleractinia: Anthozoa: Dendrophylliidae: Balanophyllia elegans

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