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TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Diploria labyrinthiformis

L: D. strigosa           R: D. labyrinthiformis

 

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

 

Fluorescent, Benwood wreck, Key Largo, 40 feet

 

GROOVED BRAIN CORAL

Common on shallow reefs.  Forms hemispherical colonies or encrusting, undulating M-shaped ridges with central depression of variable width, polyps confined to deep trench between ridges.  Yellowish, grayish-brown, or tan.  Sculpture finer than Colpophyllia natans.  Bermuda, Florida to Venezuela.