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ampliata
Created 9/6/2021
Family Merulinidae
INDO-PACIFIC
Merulina ampliata
WIDE MERULINA
Locally common on protected reefs and dropoffs.
Variable, encrusting plates with contorted branches with spreading
fan-like ends, rounded radiating ridges with uniform septa, golden
brown with contrasting margins.
Merulina scabricula has
smaller rasp-like ridges. Red Sea to Japan and the Society
Islands.
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