The Mother of all Cynarina lacrymalis found on the Great Barrier Reef

[Reef Builders]

Ania Nerowski, our own Australian-based coral nerd, has reported to us a fantastic coral that showed up in Australia. Cynarina lacrymalis, the Button Coral, is normally a solitary, monocentric, one polyp, one mouth coral. Double or triple heads sometimes show up, but we’ve never seen one like this crazy one before, with so many heads.…
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