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Updated 9/6/2021

Family Merulinidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Orbicella annularis



Jardines de la Reina, Cuba
   

LOBED STAR CORAL

Common on shallow reefs.  Massive hemispheres composed of many rounded columns with dead bases, tan, greenish, grayish or yellowish-brown.  Calices small and closely-spaced, with sloping sides.  Bermuda, Florida to Venezuela, & the Gulf of Mexico.  Formerly known as Montastraea annularis.