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Fire Coral

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Fire Coral is the genus Millepora, a group of colonial marine organisms that physically resemble stony coral but are not true corals, being instead more closely related to Hydra and other hydrozoans as a hydrocoral. Fire corals make up the only genus in the monotypic family Milleporidae.

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