Coral with pattern of short convolutions

Brain coral with short convolutions

( Faviidae )

Head of brain coral consists of polyps which remain a hard calcium skeleton. It is a stony coral. Fish cannot hide within brain coral because its surface is dense and don't have deep holes unlike branching staghorn corals.

This stony white coral has got
      branches-horns (Acropora sp.)
Staghorn coral

Spherical coral with
      brain convolutions
Brain labyrinth pattern

Green fish hide in the hornes of the hard coral
Fish hide within coral

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