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Our only local stony coral. Astrangia forms low coralline encrustations on rocks, sometimes building short lobes. Coloration is whitish to an orange-pink color. This species is not capable of forming the massive heads of tropical corals but otherwise resembles a typical warm-water scleractinid. Dead specimens are often found on beaches, devoid of live polyps.
Gosner, K.L., A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company Barnes, R.D., Invertebrate Zoology, 1980, Saunders College and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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David Remsen
Close up, angled view. |
L.F. Bush
Close-up of header image. |
Gray collection
Side view, specimen collected off Nonamesset Island |
GG Lower
3.5 cm colony, collected by G.G. Lower |
W. Amos
Specimen collected from Fisheries jetter, Woods Hole Aug. 1965 |
W. Amos
Specimen collected from Fisheries jetter, Woods Hole Aug. 1965 |
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