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[acroporas]

#1 I think these are hydroids, anyone know a name for it? Also, can you recomend a good Hydroid refrence book.






#2 I have seen the ID of this but can not find it now.

[Leslie]

I think you need a good bryozoan book instead!
There's something similar to the first one called Reteporellina/Reteporella sp in Gosliner, Behrens, & Williams. The other I can't really match. There's a great assortment of identified bryozoan images by Karen Gowlett-Holmes at http://www.civgeo.rm...es/default.html

[acroporas]

Thanks Leslie I think you are right about the first being a bryozoan

I found the second one. That one is a hydroid Aglaophenia cupressina

[Lndr]

It is similar to an Australian species Canda arachnoides ... a key feature is the branches of the bryzoa are connected by cross tubes

HTH
Lndr