Scientific Name Palythoa spp
Common Name: Golden Sea Mat
Colour: Golden brown, to cream, polyps often darker, will darken in aquaria with inadequate lighting. Sometimes with fluorescent green or yellow tentacles.
Distinguishing Features: Thick encrusting growth; coenenchyma embedded with sand grains; polyps open during the day and night; zooxanthellate; single sphincter muscle; few mesenteries (15-20); mesenteries not mesh-like (Mather and Bennett, 1993). Palythoa mammillosa forms thicker, more cushion-like growths than the other species.
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