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Blue Coral

Heliopora coerulea

Classification

Blue coral (Heliopora coerulea) is a species of colonial coral. It is the only octocoral known to produce a massive skeleton. This skeleton is formed of aragonite, similar to that of scleractinia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 43