Its habitat is shallow water and it lives in association with black corals.
They generally live in deep-sea waters, coiling its arms on branched black coral.
At 70 feet we exited the hole and went on to swim along a vertical wall sprouting trees of black coral.
Originally created in red (coral) green and black in 1930, from 1931 many colourway variations appeared.
"Just smoked some black coral with the boys down at Ghetto Liquors."
"Mon, I hurt you bad myself and you slip me de black coral!"
Its reefs are notable for their black coral, which is used for jewelry and other crafts.
Avoid buying objects made from black coral, turtle and tortoise shell.
Perfect pieces of black coral were difficult to obtain.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, commercial harvesting of black coral occurred in Molokini.