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Orange Cup Coral Tubastraea coccinea invades Florida and the Flower Garden Banks, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Pamela Fletcher, Keith Mille, Tim McIntosh, Janet Phipps, Rhett Butler, Julian Sprung, and Tim Mcintosh for observations of T. coccinea in Florida, and Emma Hickerson for observations of T. coccinea discovered by Heidi Lydersen-Bulman on the East Flower Garden Bank. We thank Rhett Butler for collecting the coral sample, and Daniela Stettler for aquarium observations.

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  2. Broward County Dept. of Planning and Environmental Protection, 218 SW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, 33301, USA

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Fenner, D., Banks, K. Orange Cup Coral Tubastraea coccinea invades Florida and the Flower Garden Banks, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Coral Reefs 23, 505–507 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-004-0422-x

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