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10-15cm, encrusting to small boulder-shaped. Corallites (about 0.5cm)
with separate walls, white on a black background. The background skeleton
remains black even after the colony is dead. Polyps with thin tentacles.
Colours brownish, sometimes with greenish tinge. Rocky shores and rubble. Commonly seen on
our Nothern shores. |
Colonies
10-20cm, irregular boulder-shaped. Corallites with thick separate
walls, circular. Corallites are packed close to, but not squashed
against one another. Colours green, yellow, orange, brown, blue and
purple. Commonly seen on our Southern shores. |
Colonies
10-20cm, irregular boulder-shaped. Corallites with separate
walls, circular. Corallites are not packed close to one another. Colours green, blue. Sometimes seen on our Northern shores. |
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Colonies
10-20cm, hemi-spherical. Corallites tubular and branched with eye-shaped
tops about 0.5-1cm across, and fine 'teeth'. Colours beige, brown,
blue and greenish or purplish. Seen on our Southern
shores. |
Colonies
10-20cm, hemi-spherical. Corallites tubular and branched with irregular
lobe-shaped tops 2-5cm across, and large spiky 'teeth'. Colours brown,
blue and greenish or purplish. Seen on our Southern
shores. |
Colonies
about 15cm, encrusting. Corallites (1cm) neat domes with small central
openings, regularly spaced with neat radiating walls. Colours pinkish
and brown. Seen on our Southern shores. |
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10-15cm, smooth boulder-shaped. Corallites with separate walls, generally
circular. Colours brown, blue and green. Commonly seen on
our Southern shores. |
Colonies
10-15cm, smooth boulder-shaped. Corallites distorted ovals with separate
walls that are thick with regular ridges and no big 'teeth' sticking
out. Polyps fleshy with many short tentacles. Colours blue, purple
and green. Commonly seen on
our Southern shores. |
Colonies
10-15cm, smooth boulder-shaped. Corallites with separate walls with
tiny sharp 'teeth', generally circular. Corallites closely packed
against one another. Colours purple with white. Commonly seen on many
of our shores. Seen on our Southern shores. |
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Colonies
10-12cm, boulder-shaped or encrusting. Polyps (0.5-1cm in diameter),
24 tentacles, short body column (0.5-1cm). Corallites circular or
hexagonal. Colours seen include purple, pink, greenish, yellow and
brown. Commonly seen our Southern
shores. |
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Colony
20-40cm, encrusts rocks and rubble like a rubbery mat. Polyps 1-2cm
in diameter embedded in this common tissue, short or no body column.
Coral rubble, boulders. Commonly seen on our Southern shores. |
Colony
5-10cm, a cluster of a few individual polyps. Polyp 1-2cm with long
body column, broad oral disk. On coral rubble. Commonly seen on our Southern shores. |
Colony10-15cm,
encrusting small stones and rubble sometimes forming dense carpet.
Polyps about 1cm with long body column, oral disk appears to be split
into two. Commonly seen on our shores. |
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