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coral

A general name for any of a large group of bottom-dwelling, sessile, marine invertebrate organisms (polyps) that belong to the class Anthozoa (phylum Coelenterata), are common in warm intertropical modern seas and abundant in the fossil record in all periods later than the Cambrian, produce external skeletons of calcium carbonate, and exist as solitary individuals or grow in colonies.

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