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Bebryce cinerea is a small horn coral that reaches a size of 8 - 10cm and forms branched, flat growth forms.
Living colonies have a yellow ground coloration.
Like the genera Acanthogorgia, Acabaria, Chironephthya, Echinogorgia, Menella, Ellisella, Bebryce does not have a symbiosis with energy producing zooxanthellae, and therefore has to catch and eat finest zooplankton and marine snow with its polyps.
The sometimes distinctly different depth distributions in the western Atlantic are interesting:
South Carolina, 76 m; Gulf of Mexico, 69-274 m; Bahamas, 4-329 m; Caribbean 51-549 m; Panama, 64-128 m; Venezuela, 77-86 m (Deichmann, 1936; NMNH collections; SERTC collection).
Living colonies have a yellow ground coloration.
Like the genera Acanthogorgia, Acabaria, Chironephthya, Echinogorgia, Menella, Ellisella, Bebryce does not have a symbiosis with energy producing zooxanthellae, and therefore has to catch and eat finest zooplankton and marine snow with its polyps.
The sometimes distinctly different depth distributions in the western Atlantic are interesting:
South Carolina, 76 m; Gulf of Mexico, 69-274 m; Bahamas, 4-329 m; Caribbean 51-549 m; Panama, 64-128 m; Venezuela, 77-86 m (Deichmann, 1936; NMNH collections; SERTC collection).
