Coral Encrusting Sponge
Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nuculaCoral encrusting sponges grow over and bore into living coral and take on the shape and pattern of the coral.
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_2624.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_5144.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_5147.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_5147a.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_5148.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_5150.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/spongesperm1_3788.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/spongesperm_3774.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/spongesperm_3788.jpg)
![Coral Encrusting Sponge - Chondrilla caribensis f. hermatypica / Chondrilla nucula](picture_library/creatures/sponges/coral-encrusting-sponge_4010.jpg)
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Coral encrusting sponges grow over and bore into living coral and take on the shape and pattern of the coral.