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Callyspongia fallax

Callyspongia fallax

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20.8481, -86.8759

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Description:

Photo take at -40 ft on a coral reef. An encrusting bluish or pinkish tubes, usually low, in groups; may be massive or thickly encrusting with oscular mounds; stiffly spongy; tissue clears away easily, leaving the clean skeleton.

Habitat:

Found in shallow waters on coral reef from Florida all the Caribbean sea.

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