Pachyseris speciosa can Grow Tubular Branches Too

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When we stumbled across some huge colonies of Echinopora ashmorensis growing like a field of tubes in New Caledonia, we had no inkling that we could encounter this morphology again in a different species of stony coral. Unlike the Echinopora and another species, Leptoseris tubulifera, which are well documented to develop tubular branches, we were shocked to…
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