soft pacific coral red polyps flower like marine animal black background underwater m tim timothy okeefe vertical vert v Alcyona

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The Alcyonacea or the soft corals are an order of corals which do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons Instead they contain minute spiney skeletal elements called sclerites Thus they are not reef building corals and do not lay new foundations for future corals

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Location: Truk Lagoon Chuuk Micronesia
Photo credit: © M. Timothy O'Keefe / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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