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Title: Brain Coral Spawning. Cayman Islands.
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Two photos of a symmeterical brain coral (Diploria strigosa) spawning at night in late summer. In the upper photo the gamete bundles are set in the polyps of the coral, and in the second they are being released. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- coral reef
- eggs
- Faviidae
- Faviina
- Grand Cayman
- Invertebrates
- macro
- Marine Life
- reproduction
- sex
- Stony Corals: Scleractina: Scleractinia
- symmeterical brain coral: Diploria strigosa
- tropical
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