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Big DIP
Family Faviidae
Diploastrea heliopora
Sometimes you come across big colonies of hard corals on S'pore reefs. Given that hard corals grow so slowly (1-15cm/year), how old do you think this
colony is?
Pulau Hantu March 2005

 

 

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