Dead Mans Fingers

Alcyonium digitatum

• Group: Coral

Despite the grim name, dead mans fingers is a soft coral, its colonies rising in pale lobed clusters from rock. Each finger is studded with polyps that snatch sea urchins, snails, shellfish and small crustaceans that drift within reach.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Octocorallia › Malacalcyonacea › Alcyoniidae › Alcyonium

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 125333.