Shell-less Coral (IMAGE)

CSIRO Australia

Shell-less Coral

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Pictured is a bright red, undescribed species of shell-less coral, called an anthomastid or gorgons-head coral, at 1700 meters deep at the Cascade Plateau, off south-east Tasmania.

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Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory WHOI

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