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Soft Coral

Soft Coral
Soft corals are unique among coral animals in that they lack a distinct skeleton. They neverthless live in colonies as individual polyps fuse into a complex body that sometimes may form branching patterns.
Allan Power/Bruce Coleman, Inc.
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Cnidarians; Coral; Coral Reef
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