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Orange Cup Coral

Aspect: Bright yellow-orange polyps, or when polyps not deployed show pink-red bottle cork-like corallites, generally densely packed (see differences in pictures below).
Population: Common.
Notable feature: -
Environment: Under the vaults of caves or even under the fantail area of shipwrecks.
Behaviour: -
  • French designation: Corail Tube Orange
  • Latin designation: Tubastrea coccinea
  • Creole designation: -
  • Size (cm): ~2 dia