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- Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (Acanthaster planci)
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- COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- COTS on finger coral (Porites lobata)
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- COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- Close up of COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).
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- COTS scar on rice coral (Montipora capitata).
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- COTS scar on rice coral (Montipora capitata). Note partial scarring on neighboring mounding corals.
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- COts outbreak north Oahu.
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- COts outbreak on rice corals northern Oahu.
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- COts outbreak on rice corals northern Oahu.
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- Acanthaster planci on cauliflower coral
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- COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.
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- Close up of COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.
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- COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.
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- COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).
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- COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).
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- Close up of COTS arms on finger corals.
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- Titon’s Trumpet, one of the important predators of COTS.
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- COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.
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- Cushion seastars are also corallivores (Culcita novaeguineae).
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- Cots on Bewick’s Coral (Leptastrea bewickensis).
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- Cots scar on Bewick’s Coral (Leptastrea bewickensis).
