Coral Lab

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Dr. Andrea Quattrini holding up a big orange coral while standing in a room full of drawers that contain corals.
Left: Branches of Aphanipathes puertoricoensis Horowitz & Quattrini, 2023, a branch with some subbranches and a scale showing 5 cm, with a white box over a branch indicating the section shown in the middle image. Middle: Skeleton of the branch section that has rows of skeletal spines, with a white box highlighting the area shown in the right image. Right: Close-up of skeletal spines that have little bumps or tubercles, small surface features on the spines used to identify black coral species.
Picture of the holotype of Stauropathes arctica.