Sister Islands gallery of intertidal life in singapore

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Mushroom coral Fungia sp. Family Fungiidae Mushroom corals are hard corals. Those that were still submerged continued to extend their tentacles. A Mushroom coral is a huge solitary polyp, unlike most other hard corals, which are colonies of many little polyps.

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