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Yellow Pencil Coral
Sep 11, 2017. 1000 Steps, Bonaire.
A mini-prairie of fluffy coral with some happy bicolor damselfishes hovering on top.
Colonies of this coral are branching with densely packed fingers, each of which is relatively fragile. Colonies may cover several square metres. Colour is pale yellow, and pale polyps are commonly extended in daytime as well as at night, giving a fuzzy appearance to the colonies. Calices have 10 septa.
http://coralpedia.bio.warwick.ac.uk/en/corals/madracis_auretenra
''Madracis auretenra'', commonly known as the yellow finger coral or yellow pencil coral, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Astrocoeniidae. It is a fairly common species and is found in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean. At one time this species was not recognised, but it was split from ''Madracis mirabilis'' on the grounds of morphology and depth range.
