Rose Lace Coral
Stylaster roseus

f22 @ 1/60S, ASA 25, Kodachrome 25 slide film, Nikonos II w 35mm and 1:2 extension tube, Oceanic flash with aluminum flash reflector

"Rose Lace Coral," iNaturalist.org. Colonies flabellate to bushy, up to 7 cm tall and 11 cm broad. Branches slightly elliptical in cross section and nonanastomotic; distal branches not much larger in diameter than diameter of a cyclosystem (about 1 mm). Coenosteum deep purple, white with rose cyclosystems, completely white, or rose colored, in order of frequency of occurrence in the USNM collections.

Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

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