Florida Corallimorpharian

Ricordea florida

• Group: Coral

This corallimorph carpets rocky reef bottoms in the warm western Atlantic with rounded, jewel like discs ringed in short knobbed tentacles. Closely related to anemones but lacking a hard skeleton, it feeds on sunlight through algae in its tissue as well as on small drifting prey.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Corallimorpharia › Ricordeidae › Ricordea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 290995.