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Updated 1/27/2013

Family Antipathariidae

HAWAII

Cirrhipathes anguina

Wire Coral Shrimps, Haleiwa Harbor, 25 feet

Wire Coral Goby, Haleiwa Harbor, 25 feet

 

Red Hill, Hawaii, 100 feet

Honaunau, Hawaii, 140 feet

 

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 30 feet

 

Maui Ocean Center

 

YO-257 wreck, Oahu, 90 feet

 

Lanai Lookout, Oahu, 50 feet

Sea Tiger wreck, Oahu, 110 feet

 

Molokini Back Wall, 80 feet

Moku Manu Pinnacle, Oahu, 120 feet

Portlock, Oahu, 30 feet

WIRE CORAL

These odd stick-like corals are common, protruding from current-swept vertical faces & rocky outcrops deeper than 20 feet.  Polyps present on all sides.  Attains at least 5 feet.  It will fluoresce neon green but this color is lost in flash photographs, color variable, usually greenish-brown or rust.  Some corals host commensal gobies, shrimp, or crabs.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.