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Description
A potentially dying coral colony with two attached brittle stars and twoanemones. A small amount of apparently living tissue on some branches is orange to olive in color. Portions of the skeleton lacking tissue or covered by brown flocculent material. The brittle star is a normal symbiont of this type ofcoral, however the bleached white color of the arms is not typical.
Credit
Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE
Display Date
2010
Location
Gulf of Mexico
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Lophelia II Expeditions