Sunray Lettuce Coral

Description:

Photo take at -35 ft on a coral reef. this is a small specimen. Colonies form flat plates or saucers of 10-25 cm in diameter. The ridges and valleys are short, and not continuous. The corallite centers are distinctively nestled in rows against the ridges' steep inner edges. Outer ridge faces slope more gently toward the colonies' edge. Columella trabecular and discontinuous.

Habitat:

Inhabit sloping reefs, most common between 7.5 and 30 m. from Florida all the Caribbean sea, to North Brazil.