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Carijoa riisei

Classification

Carijoa riisei, the snowflake coral or branched pipe coral, is a species of soft coral in the family Clavulariidae. It was originally thought to have been native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and subsequently spread to other areas of the world such as Hawaii and the greater tropical Pacific, where it is regarded as an invasive species. The notion that it is native to the tropical western Atlantic was perpetuated from the fact that the type specimen, described by Duchassaing & Michelotti in 1860, was collected from the US Virgin Islands.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 45France · 30Mexico · 17Brazil · 11Cuba · 4Netherlands · 2United Kingdom · 1