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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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an inch is wasted. Asfar as the eye can see through the watery Haisles the abundant coral growths stand inshouldering clusters. Here is a group ofthree green, dome-shaped caps rising closetogether on stony pedestals for all theworld like giant mushrooms. They are theannular orb corals (Orhicella annularis),their green summits suffused with delicateclouds of rose, where areas of the tinyflower-like polyps show their expandedtentacles. Near by, a double-ridged braincoral (Diploria cerebriformis), bright orangein color, projects its rounded knoblikehead, mounted on a contorted column, itssurface covered with complicated meander-ing sculpture, suggesting the convolutionsof the human brain. A little farther to theleft another growth of the same specieshas developed an odd triple cluster of headsupon the same stem. A beautiful elkhornimmediately behind it spreads an unusuallysymmetrical frond of broad palmatebranches like a giant fan. Crowding uponthis from the rear, phalanxes of orb coral
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NassauGrouper This great, striped and mottled fish is often socamouflaged among its surroundings as to be prac-tically invisible. Should it swim over a patch of whitesand, its colors fade to harmonize. Opposite thegrouper a giant sea anemone spreads its wavingtentacles. At the lower right is a fragile bush coral 8 A TRANSPLANTED CORAL REEF ! posts stand, grou))((l like sentinels, amonggolden yellow nuggets of pore corals(Parilea astreoides) which cover every avail-able space on the sea floor between theirstately neighbors. In the center foreground, spreadingclusters of the fragile, finely divided bushcoral (Acropora prolifera) overarch thehiding place of the si)iny lobster or craw-fish (Panidirus argus), while on a littlesandy patch at the lower left a bear-crab(Scyllarides aquinoctialis) is warily in-specting a large spiny sea urchin (Cen-trechiuus antillarum) which radiates itsblack, needle-like spines in all directions,reminding one of a submarine porcupine.Clusters of yellow-tippe

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