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Created 9/12/2021

Family Siderastreidae

ASIAN PACIFIC

Coscinaraea exesa



Soft Coral Arch, Palau


Namena, Fiji

Rainbow Reef, Fiji 


 

SPREADING COSCINARAEA

Fairly common on shallow reefs.  Massive or encrusting with columns, shallow calices with numerous denticles alone or in short  depressions, giving a disorganized appearance, tentacles extended during the day, gray or brown.  Coscinaraea columna is massive with sinuous grooves.  Malay Peninsula to Okinawa and the Austral Islands.