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Hawaiian black coral

Antipathes griggi

Classification

Antipathes griggi is a species of colonial coral in the order Antipatharia, the black corals, so named because their calcareous skeletons are black. Distribution Antipathes griggi is found primarily in the Hawaiian Islands. Taxonomy Antipathes griggi was formerly identified as Antipathes dichotoma, but Opresko (2003) restricted the latter species to the Mediterranean and judged the Hawaiian material to be distinct.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 17