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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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