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Reef Parrotfish

Sparisoma amplum

Classification

Family
Scaridae

Description Mussismilia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are phaceloid or subplocoid, with irregular teeth or one to three centres being linked.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 56