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Antipatharians, also known as black corals or thorn corals, are an order of soft deep-water corals. These corals can be recognized by their jet-black or dark brown chitin skeletons, surrounded by the polyps the part of coral that is alive. Several washed up on beach and exposed in a tide pool pool. |
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