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Home > HCAS > HCAS_FAC_PUBS > Marine and Environmental Sciences > CNSO_MESPROJECTS > Octocorals Guide > Full Species List > Pseudoplexaura crucis

Pseudoplexaura crucis

Family: Plexauridae

Common Name(s): False cross plexaura

Colony Form: Profusely and dichotomously branched in roughly one plane; to 34 cm tall.

Axis: Cylindrical

Branches: Thin, cylindrical, arising chiefly near colony base, ~4-6 mm in diameter.

Apertures: Circular to oval, ~1 mm across, closely crowded; no projecting calices, but lower rims slightly raised toward branch tips.

Mucus: Slimy

Color: Living colonies greenish yellow to yellow. Dries greenish gray to brownish gray.

Sclerites: Polyp armature: small rods. Axial layer: purple 6- to 8-rayed capstans, simple and branched spindles, and irregular sclerites. Surface layer: abundant small (0.1-0.15 mm) 3-flanged leaf-clubs; narrow, straight or curved spindles with close complex tubercles, slightly >1 mm long, but smaller, often branched and purple in deeper layers.

Habitat: Shallow reefs to 20 m depth.

Distribution: South Florida, Bermuda, Caribbean Sea.

Notes: Flamingo tongue gastropods, Cyphoma spp., are common predators of Pseudoplexaura spp. (Harvell and Suchanek, 1987).

References: Bayer (1961), Kinzie (1973), Cairns (1977), Harvel & Suchanek (1987), Humann & DeLoach (2002), Sánchez & Wirshing (2005).

Similar Species: Pseudoplexaura porosa

 

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  • <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961) by Howard Lasker

    <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961)

  • <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961) by Charles Messing

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  • <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961) by Charles Messing

    <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961)

  • <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961) by Charles Messing

    <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961)

  • <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961) by Charles Messing

    <em>Pseudoplexaura crucis </em>(Bayer, 1961)

 
 
 

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