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Order Hydrocorallina: These are colonial polypoid hydrozoans that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons, though they are not true corals... The Order comprises two suborders, the Milleporina and Suborder Stylasterina: Characterized by having a thick layer of tissue overlying their skeletons. Their specialized feeding and defensive polyps are imbedded within star-shaped openings in their calcareous skeletons. Aquarium Husbandry: Not hard to keep IF procured in originally healthy condition, and kept under "ideal" cured reef conditions... Sometimes deteriorates | Distichopora sp. | 
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| Stylaster roseus Here in the Bahamas and St. Lucia in the TWA. Below off Grand Turk. |  
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| Stylaster sp. Bunaken, Indonesia. N. Sulawesi colonies below. | 
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