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Massive Starlet Coral

Aspect:	Appears as a light brown, or brown, solid boulder-shaped mass of tight, small and deeply pitted corallites.
Population:	Common.
Notable feature:	Corallites are relatively small, funnel shaped, and bordered by some 28 septa, the outer edges of which (the costae) penetrate those of a neighbouring polyp septa array in a manner reminiscent of cogworks.
Environment:	Relatively shetered areas at depths of between 3 and 20 metres.
Behaviour:	-

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