Coenocyathus sebroecki, a New Species of Azoox Coral from Brazil

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Coenocyathus sebroecki is a new species of non-photosynthetic scleractinian coral from Brazil that was surprisingly discovered in reasonably shallow depth. Unlike so many descriptions of new azoox coral before it, we have clear photographs of both the clean coral skeleton and the living coral polyps. Unlike many new ahermatypic corals, the discovery of the newly […]
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