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Title: Icing Sponge On Coral, Cayman Islands
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An orange icing sponge (Mycale laevis) growing on star coral (mountainous star coral: Orbicella faveolata). This is an early stage of growth, with time the coral will grow into lobes edged by the sponge. East End, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- East End
- Grand Cayman
- Invertebrates
- Marine Life
- orange icing sponge: Mycale laevis
- Siliceous Sponges: Demospongiae
- Sponges: Porifera
- star coral: mountainous star coral: Orbicella faveolata
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