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Family
Agariciidae
INDO-PACIFIC
Pavona
explanulata
Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 20 feet |
cropped
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Rainmaker Pt., Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet
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STARRY
PAVONA
Common on reef slopes.
Encrusting plates, massive, or columnar with widely-spaced calices with
a distinct columella and smooth septo-costae, calices often in rows
parallel to the colony margin. Color variable. Red Sea to
Japan and the Marquesas.
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