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Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising over 3,000 species [1] of marine organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips) within three orders: Alcyonacea, Helioporacea, and Pennatulacea. [2]
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The blue coral is the only extant octocoral with a massive skeleton, [3] which is composed of fibrocrystalline aragonite (calcium carbonate). It is a hermatypic zooxanthellaete species with either blue or green-grey polyps located within its skeleton, with each containing eight tentacles. Its colonies are either columnar, plate like or branched.
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Canberra Olympic Pool: Opened in 1955 in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, this was the first 10-metre diving platform tower built in Australia. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre : host to the 2000 Olympic Games diving events and provides an ongoing venue for diving competitions with diving towers and springboards.
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Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth The underwater viewing tunnel at Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth 55°01′40″N 1°25′49″W / 55.0276839°N 1.430407°W / 55.0276839; -1. The Tynemouth branch is located in Tynemouth , England, and opened on February 9, 2002. [ 11 ]
P. branneri is an encrusting coral that forms patches up to 15 cm (6 in) in diameter with knobbly projections some 2.5 cm (1 in) across. The corallites are small and pentagonal, giving the surface of the coral a pitted appearance when the polyps are retracted. When the polyps are extended to feed, the surface appears fuzzy.