What is a Corallimorph?

[metweezer]

Can someone explain this to me: Corallimorph?

 

[reefkprz]

corralimorph = mushrooms: discosomas, ricordea etc. also called false corals.

 

[flricordia]

What reefkprZ said. They are not really corals at all but sea anemones. They do not contain calcium skeleton (hard-outside. soft-inside/calcium spiriculs within the soft matrix) nor do they have the multi circular polyp makeup that hard and soft have (I may not have worded that right. Something like that, memory getting bad these days). Soft-octo/8 polyp and hard 6 and more but never 8 that contian hairlike cilia used for stinging and capturing food.

 

[nano reefer]

i thought they were somehow a cross breed of mushrooms and anemones? Some look like yumas, while other look like mini bubble tips. am i wrong about this?
D. sanctithomae look exactly like mini bubble tip anemones, and R. indosinensis looks like a mini sebae (i think its known as hairy mushroom), and Corynactis californica look like mini dunan polyps/anemones. cool stuff.