I Got Stung By a Ball-Tentacle Shroom!

[Reef Builders]

Shrooms or corallimorphs are classified as some of the most innocuous of all stinging ‘corals’ and they tend to be at the bottom of the aggression pyramid in most reef environments. The smooth surfaces of Discosoma and most Rhodactis don’t really have any appendages in which to concentrate their nematocysts to pack any kind of stinging punch…
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