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Family Poritidae

WESTERN ATLANTIC

Porites porites

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

 

Benwood wreck, Key Largo, 40 feet

 

cropped

Fluorescent, Benwood wreck, Key Largo, 40 feet

CLUBTIP FINGER CORAL

Common on reefs in shallow water.  Clump of irregular clubbed branches, grayish-brown with long polyps extended during the day.  Bermuda & Florida to Venezuela, the Gulf of Mexico, and West Africa.