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Deep-sea caryophyllid

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Yellow arrows point to a few solitary deep-sea caryophyllid cup corals found in the Graveyard Seamounts, located in the Chatham Rise at 800 m in depth. Unlike Flabellum, they usually attach to hard substrate and are limited to continental margins and seamounts.