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pl23_expn6009.jpg

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Description

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.

Credit

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana

Display Date

20150809T230045Z

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Ocean Exploration Collection

Modern Expeditions

2015 Hohonu Moana