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Family Agariciidae

TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC

Pavona gigantea

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Cabo Pulmo, Baja California, Mexico

GIANT PAVONA

Uncommon in shallow water.  Massive colonies with closely spaced star-shaped calices.  Green, gray, or brown.  Pavona explanulata is encrusting, plate-like or columnar with more widely spaced corallites.  Baja California to Ecuador.