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Updated 9/5/2021

Family Faviidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Mycetophyllia ferox



Looe Key, FL, 10 feet

cropped

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

 

ROUGH CACTUS CORAL

Uncommon on shallow reefs.  Thin plates with narrow sinuous valleys containing a single row of polyps, coarse ridges.  Gray, brown, or green with valleys of different color.  Mycetophyllia danaana has longer, wider valleys.  Florida to Venezuela.