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Gunpowder Sponge
Halichondria bowerbanki

More than 12” (30 cm) wide, 2” (51 mm) high. Thin crust. Yellow to greenish. Pores prominent in low “volcanoes.” Texture like bread crumbs.… read more

Vase Sponge
Ircinia campana

24" (61 cm) wide, 36" (91 cm) high. Vase-shaped or bell-shaped, with a deep central cavity. Reddish to reddish-brown. Surface irregular, with small pores and coarse longitudinal ribs.… read more

Red Beard Sponge
Microciona prolifera

Varies from a thin encrusting layer less than 1/8" (3 mm) high and covering a few square inches to 8" (20 cm) wide and 8" (20 cm) high with many fanlike branches. Red to orange. Pores inconspicuous.… read more

Staghorn Coral
Acropora cervicornis

10' (3 m) high, more than 60" (152 cm) wide. Loosely branched, with 1" (25 mm) wide, cylindrical branches of variable length which do not fuse together. Yellowish or purplish-brown, paler at the tips. Surface covered with small, protruding, round cups ...… read more

Elkhorn Coral
Acropora palmata

10' (3 m) high, more than 60" (152 cm) wide. Treelike, with flattened, fanlike branches of extremely variable length and width extending outward from a short, thick stalk. Brownish-yellow to cream-colored, tips of branches white. … read more

Labyrinthine Brain Coral
Diploria labyrinthiformis

96" (244 cm) high, 96" (244 cm) wide. Convex, heavy boulders with winding, interconnected valleys 1/4" (6 mm) deep, and 3/8" (10 mm) wide. Bright orange-yellow to brownish-yellow. Walls between valleys thick, with longitudinal groove.… read more

Crenelated Fire Coral
Millepora alcicornis

More than 24" (61 cm) high, more than 18" (46 cm) wide. Upright, branching or platelike, on coral rock or encrusting mollusk shells or skeletons of horny corals. Brown to creamy-yellow. Covered with tiny pores occupied by whitish polyps.… read more

Clubbed Finger Coral
Porites porites

Colony 12" (30 cm) or more long, 12" (30 cm) wide, forming thick clumps of irregular branches swollen at their ends, 1" (25 mm) wide. Pale beige, yellowish-brown to purplish. Branches covered with closely set cups about 1/16" (2 mm) wide and equally high.… read more

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