California Academy of Sciences, Water Planet Gallery
The heart of the Steinhart Aquarium, Water Planet focuses on the universality of water wherever there is life, investigating the adaptations by organisms to live in the myriad niches resulting from water's many differences in chemistry, abundance or scarcity, temperature, and motion.
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Sarcophyton
In the Plant Kingdom (Plantae), Sarcophyton is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae: Sarcophyton (plant) In the Animal Kingdom (Animalia), Sarcophyton is a genus of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae: ?? <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1220 CPU time usage: 0.056 seconds Real time usage: 0.071 seconds Preprocessor ...more ↓
Xeniidae
The Xeniidae are a family of soft coral in the order Alcyonacea. Predatory sea slugs of the genus Phyllodesmium are reported to feed on Xeniidae species. The family contains the following genera:
Gorgonia
Gorgonacea is an order of sessile colonial cnidarian found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics. Gorgonians are also known as sea whips or sea fans and are similar to the sea pen, a soft coral. Gorgonians are closely related to, but technically not coral, themselves. Individual tiny polyps form colonies that are normally erect, ...more ↓
