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Title: Brain Coral Fluorescence. Cayman Islands.
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Detail of a brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) fluorescencing, photographed under blue light to excite the fluorescence in the polyps, the ridges between the lines of polyps do not fluoresce and therefore appear black. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- coral reef
- Faviidae
- Faviina
- Grand Cayman
- grooved brain coral: Diploria labyrinthiformis
- Invertebrates
- macro
- Marine Life
- Stony Corals: Scleractina: Scleractinia
- tropical
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