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Beautiful, but touchy | By Bob Fenner | Heliofungia actiniformis |
Genus Halomitra Dana 1846. Thinner walled than genus Sandalolitha, but similar with outward facing corallites. | Halomitra pileus (Linnaeus 1758). Dome shaped colonies, no axial furrow, corallites get larger toward the edge. Maldives images at right, N. Sulawesi below. Grows to about "helmet size". |  
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Genus Heliofungia Wells 1966. One species. Flat, free-living, with large lobed teeth. Unusual for its tentacles looking like a giant anemones, being out most all the time day and night (in the wild most Fungiids are closed up during light hours). | Heliofungia actiniformis (Quoy & Gaimard 1833). Vying for single largest polyp amongst corals. Colors of tentacles from off-white to brown, blue, gray... with pink or white tips. Maldives specimen at right and an image of a symbiotic Periclimenes holthuisi. First row below aquarium images. N. Sulawesi pix second row. The last very stressed. |  
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