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Order Antipatharia: Black Corals, Thorny Corals | Antipathes sp. Bushy Black Coral. Finely branched to the point of bushiness. Colored gold to brownish. Circumtropical genus. N. Sulawesi pix. |  
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| Antipathes dichotoma. Black Coral. The largest black coral tree species in the Red Sea. Used for its hard proteinaceous endoskeleton in the jewelry trade. Close up by Diana Fenner. | 
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| Cirripathes anguina, Whip Coral, Red Sea. Often twisted on its singular axis. Red Sea pix by Diana Fenner. |  
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| Cirripathes (Stichopathes) leutkeni, Wire Coral. Tropical West Atlantic. Up to fourteen feet in length. Cozumel image. | 
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| Cirripathes sp. Yellow Whip Coral, Bunaken, N. Sulawesi, |  
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| Cirripathes sp. Nuka Hiva, Marquesas, Polynesia. | 
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