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Encrusting pore coral

This coral is attached permanently to the ocean floor. It spreads out into thin, wide, leaf-like colonies. Larger colonies can grow out in multiple layers. Its surface is covered with many bumpy protrusions.

Scientific name Montipora aequituberculata
English name Encrusting pore coral

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