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Unread 04/11/2006, 07:33 PM   #11
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I will email James Reimer tonight and see if I can post some of his pics and what not.
He also made a "key to species" this is the shortend version of the identification of Z. gigantus:
"White vertical stripes on serface of closed polyp; polyp diameter towards oral disk usually over twice as wide as polyp diameter at base." (Reimer 2006)

there are pics as well one looks like the RPE and one like the GPE

this work was done with zoas from around southwest Japan so he didn't necessarily use PPE and he was collecting from the wild so it is posable that the group we as hobbiest call PE are of a broader range and are of more than one species however by placing these ones from Japan in the Genus Zoanthus it means that all PE are Zoanthus and are likely gigantus but not necessarily


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