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> Merulinidae > Merulina
scabricula
Updated 9/6/2021
Family Merulinidae
INDO-WEST PACIFIC
Merulina scabricula
Blue Corner, Palau, 30 feet |
Taveuni, Fiji
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Waya, Indonesia
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Nila, Indonesia, 25 feet
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Palau |
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Palau, 8 feet |
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Beqa Lagoon Resort, Fiji, 10 feet
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Wakatobi, Indonesia, 25 feet
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Tutuila, American Samoa |
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ROUGH MERULINA
Common on protected reefs and dropoffs.
Variable, encrusting plates with contorted branches with spreading
fan-like ends, narrow radiating ridges with irregular rasp-like septa, golden
brown with contrasting margins.
Merulina ampliata has
larger ridges with more uniform septa. East Africa to Japan and Samoa.
All
coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior
to 1998. |
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