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Family Siderastreidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Coscinaraea columna



Savusavu Bay, Fiji

Amalau, Tutuila, American Samoa, 20 feet

 

MASSIVE COSCINARAEA

Fairly common on shallow reefs.  Encrusting, sheet-like, or massive, deep calices with smooth septo-costae in elongate depressions, white denticles outline ridges, gray or brown.  Coscinaraea exesa is columnar without grooves.  Red Sea to Japan and French Polynesia.