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Updated 9/8/2021

Family Lobophylliidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Echinophyllia aspera

   


Banda Sea, Indonesia

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 35 feet


 

 

CHALICE CORAL

Common on reef dropoffs in murky water.  Forms numerous plates with randomly-placed, slightly elevated corallites encircled by nodular projections, brown or green with contrasting polyps.  Red Sea east through Japan and Samoa.