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Boulder Star Coral

Orbicella annularis

Classification

Orbicella annularis, commonly known as the Boulder star coral, is a species of coral that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean and is the most thoroughly studied and most abundant species of reef-building coral in the Caribbean to date. It also has a comprehensive fossil record within the Caribbean. This species complex has long been considered a generalist that exists at depths between 0 and 80 metres (0 and 262 ft) and grows into varying colony shapes (heads, columns, plates) in response to differing light conditions.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 465United States of America · 462France · 225United Kingdom · 104Mexico · 82Cuba · 33