Sunset cup coral  (Leptopsammia pruvoti)

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Description

The slow-growing and long-lived sunset cup coral has a porous skeleton (3) about the size of a thimble (2). The polyps are similar in appearance to sea anemones and are bright yellow in colour, reaching up to three centimetres in diameter (2).

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