Figure 1. Plan view of Observation Reef, Lameshur Bay, St. John. 



urchins, and sponges. Two larger Diploria colonies were partially 

 dead and the dead areas were partially covered with a bright red 

 sponge in which small white anemones were embedded. This sponge 

 appeared to be attacking the dead part of the coral skeleton which 

 was clearly delimited from the living corals. Prominent 

 Spirobranchus worm gills protruded from many of the globose coral 

 colonies. 



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