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Family Poritidae

WESTERN ATLANTIC

Porites astreoides

Benwood wreck, Key Largo, FL, 40 feet

 

cropped

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

Fluorescent, Benwood wreck, Key Largo, 40 feet

MUSTARD HILL CORAL

Common on reefs in shallow water.  Massive or encrusting with rounded lumps, grayish-brown or greenish-yellow.  Bermuda & Florida to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, and West Africa.