Pink sea fan
Pink sea fan
Pink sea fans (Eunicella verrucosa), the large seafan, pink sea fan or warty gorgonian, is a colonial Gorgonian "soft coral" species in the Gorgoniidae family. It is indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea. This sea fan is a group of individual animals that share a strong shell, or polyps. We live affixed to rocky surfaces beneath the sea, often at right angles to the current to make the most of the moving food; as the anemone-like polyps use their stinging tentacles to capture plankton from the column of water. Pink sea fans provide other marine life with a bed, including the unusual sea fan anemone, and a sea slug that regularly feeds on their host sea fan.

Author: Brenda Moita
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