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Created 9/29/2021

Family Tubiporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Tubipora musica

Lewaleng, Indonesia
Wetar, Indonesia

ORGAN PIPE CORAL

Moderately common on shallow reefs.  Extensive hemispherical masses of purple tubes joined by horizontal sheets, small polyps with green, brown, or light gray tentacles and short pinnules, disc small and flat, retracted polyps appear as white buds.  Red Sea to Okinawa, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands.