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Family Faviidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Diploria strigosa

9-foot Stake, Key West, FL, 25 feet

 

L: D. strigosa           R: D. labyrinthiformis

 

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

Fluorescent, Benwood wreck, Key Largo, 40 feet

SYMMETRICAL BRAIN CORAL

Common on shallow reefs.  Forms smooth hemispherical colonies or encrusting, flowing ridges lack groove at apex.  Yellowish, greenish, or purplish-brown with gray or green valleys.  Surface features smaller than Colpophyllia natans.  Bermuda, Florida to Venezuela & the Southern Gulf of Mexico.