Mediterranean coral reef – Barriera corallina mediterranea – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-22-10h59m14s373
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Mediterranean coral reef

Savalia savaglia is commonly known as Gold coral. This organism is commonly called "false black coral". It owes its name to its ability to produce a dark-colored horny skeleton, usually blackish. The colonies are generally settled on pre-existing gorgonians skeletons and can grow with ramifications that far exceed one meter in length.
Cushion coral Cladocora caespitosa Madrepora a ccuscino-2024-10-05-22h12m21s934
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Cushion coral - Cladocora caespitosa

Cushion coral, Cladocora caespitosa is a typical madrepore of the Mediterranean Sea, it belongs to the Hexacorallia class and to the Cnidaria phylum., It usually has a brownish, beige or dirty white color, this one in the video is unusually very white, probably because it is "still young". It is a colony of polyps that live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae algae. The polyps form calcium carbonate deposits that form the cells in which they live and that make the madrepore grow in size ...