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Precious coral

Data unknown / Locality unknown / Dried specimen / Department of Research, UMUT

概要

The word coral indicates cnidarian amimals forming hard skeletons. Among them species used for jewelry are called precious corals. Their animal consists of a colony of numerous polyps and covers a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate. The skeleton with branches is beautifully red in color. Most species inhabit rocky bottoms in deep water.