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Pillar coral

Pillar coral is a hard coral found in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Dendrogyra. It is a digitate coral -that is, it resembles fingers or a cluster of cigars, growing up from the sea... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Dendrogyra cylindricus
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Meandrinidae
Genus: Dendrogyra; Ehrenberg, 1834
Kingdom: Animalia