ID's please and some fun pix...

[mama]

what is this clam thing on my rock?? it snaps open and shut, just like my crocea...
WHAT kind of shrooms are these? they are attached, my engineer goby lives under here nas one has a double mouth...

my birthday present...still not completely open...

what kind of mushroom is this?? i love it!!

these cuties just popped up out of no where!!

[mama]

aaawww...no one knows what the clam-type hitchhiker is???....or mushrooms??? I am thinking those very large green ones are elephant ear? and the green and orange stripe are bullseye?

[lhoy]

The clam thing is indeed some type of bivalve but not sure to species. The shell is encrusted with coraline which makes ID tough.

Mushrooms are the genus discosoma and probably species mummiforis and appear to be splitting since their are two mouths.

The other "fuzzy mushroom" appears to be a Rhodactis sp.

Common names are basically completely and utterly useless since they are so variable and ID'ing many corals is limited to Genus if we want to be honest. Most people that put labels on Acropora sp. are usually doing a lot of guess work because Taxonomists will tell you that id'ing many corals requires bleached white skeleton in hand (for those that have skeletons).

Lee

[mama]

Thank YOU for your reply!!!

[lhoy]

BTW, the Rhodactis is nice!! And the zoa's that just showed up are very nice too.

Lee