Abstract
Two rare and interesting animals, which we have had alive and under observation for a week past in the aquarium of the Port Erin Biological Station, are probably worthy of record in the pages of NATURE. The one is the yellow variety (?) of Sarcodictyon. (Rhizoxenia) calenata. This was first found by Forbes and Goodsir in the Hebrides, and has been described since by myself from specimens dredged in Loch Fyne in 1883. We have now found it here, off the west side of the Calf Island, in 25 fathoms, and have at present several colonies alive with the polypes expanded. The commoner red form of Sarcodictyon is rarely seen expanded, and I do not know that the yellow one has ever been seen in this condition. The polypes are of a beautiful transparent white, and glisten in the light like frosted silver.
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HERDMAN, W. Interesting Marine Animals. Nature 50, 475–476 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050475e0
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