9-foot Stake, Key West, FL, 25 feet

L: D. strigosa           R: D. labyrinthiformis

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

Fluorescent, Benwood, Key Largo, 40 feet

Common on shallow reefs.  Forms smooth hemispherical colonies or encrusting, flowing ridges lack groove at apex.  Yellowish, greenish, or purplish-brown with gray or green valleys.  Surface features smaller than Colpophyllia natans.  Bermuda, Florida to Venezuela & the Southern Gulf of Mexico.  Formerly known as Diploria strigosa.