compound corals
compound corals Colonial corals that form a compound corallum (skeleton). Where the corallites are packed so closely as to be polygonal in section the corallum is said to be ‘massive’. Other shapes are described as dendroid, cateniform, fasciculate, phaceloid, cerioid, and astraeoid.
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