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Dendrogyra cylindrus
Photo take at -45 feef on a coral reef, this beauty pillar coral stand like a cathedral on the ocean bottom.Colonies form numerous, heavy, cylindrical spires, that grow upwards from an encrusting base mass. The colonies can attain a height of 3 meter, with a pillar diameter of more than 10 cm. Polyps are normally extended during the day, giving the colony a fuzzy appearance and obscuring the long, meandroid, corallite series.Corallites less than 1 cm in width, with a columella composed of discontinuous lamella.
Inhabit flat and slightly sloping bottoms, down to 20 m. found fro Florida all the Caribbean sea , Central America, to Brazil.
Spotted on Jun 21, 2012
Submitted on Jun 21, 2012
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