Noon Gorgon

Noon gorgon (tentatively Gorgonian meridiem).

A predatory soft coral that lures prey by mimicking the sun in the dark.

The brightest noon gorgon in a cave will attract the majority of the prey, creating an arms race to be as bright as possible. Noon gorgons feed much of their energy to their symbiotic light-producing lucifer rotsac.

The ancestral noon gorgon may have evolved to grow towards or around lucifer rotsacs, using them as bait. Eventually, a symbiotic partnership developed.

Expect noon gorgons to modify their spectrum in different depths and biomes.