Brain coral - Platygyra daedalea
Description:
Brain corals are slow-growing and develop into a range of shapes. This one was almost perfectly round. Symmetry in nature. Brain corals extend their tentacles at night to feed, and some have long defensive tentacles that they use to sting and repel other corals that grow too close
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Hexacorallia (hexacorallians)
- Scleractinia (stony corals)
- Merulinidae
- Platygyra
- Platygyra daedalea (Brain Coral)
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