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Closeup of a young bamboo coral colony. The white axial skeleton can be seenvery clearly through the transparent tissue and one dark node near the base.The polyps have contracted and withdrawn their tentacles. The two large redpolyps in the background are the octocoral Anthomastus. Deep sea coral. (Image credit: NOAA OKEANOS Explorer Program , 2013 Northeast U. S. Canyons Expedition)