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Updated 9/12/2021
Family Merulinidae
INDO-WEST PACIFIC
Hydnophora rigida
BRANCHING HORN CORAL
Locally common in lagoons where it may form large thickets.
Fragile angular branches with cones aligned as ridges and raised keels
fusing at branch tips, white or blue-green with reddish-brown tentacles
extended during the day.
East Africa to Okinawa and Melanesia. |
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