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A white scleractinian coral. The brownish spiky shoelike object below thecoral bush might be a small sponge. The chelae of a brown squat lobster is seen extending downward from the left side of the coral bush. The substrate isbotryoidal manganese encrusted. (Image credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana)