| Here is a quote from Borneman's book:
"Distichopora have no recirculation canal systems and the dactylopores align next to the gastropores laterally along the branches. A middle row of gastropores has a row of dactylopores on each side of it.... Distichopora violacea is the most common species and adopts a lacy, uniplanar, branching formation. Colonies are typically quite small."
"it is likely these hydrocorals will also succumb to dietary insufficiens. They are perhaps even more difficult to maintain that Stylaster, owing to their lack of a circulatory system for nutrients." |