Close-up view of stony coral polyp in a colony (IMAGE)

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Close-up view of stony coral polyp in a colony

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Close-up view on the individual polyps that constitute a colony of stony coral. Each polyp is just a few millimeters across and has 12 tentacles around its mouth. The brown colours are the symbiotic algae that reside within coral gastric cells.

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Shani Levy/University of Haifa

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