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Genus Leptoria. Brain Corals that have sinuous valleys that
are longer, narrower than Platygyra. Also Platygyra
columellas are thin, lamellar, those of Leptoria are wide,
spongy. /WA Corals: massive, meandroid • columella a series of
vertical plates • valley walls thick • septa neat
This genus placed in the family Merulinidae by some.
| Leptoria phrygia (Ellis & Solander 1786). Massive
colonies of irregular layout. Thick walled, with septa regular in size,
uniform. Sinuous valleys, plate-like columellae. Common on reef margin/lip.
Brown, tan to dark green. Red Sea image. |
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Genus Manicina Ehrenberg 1834. Rose Corals. One species, tropical West
Atlantic. Free-living or attached. Note groove on top of valley walls.
| Manicina areolata Linnaeus
1758. Though its range is restricted to the Tropical West
Atlantic it continues to be mis-sold as Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
Audouin 1826, the Rose Coral by some dealers. Below, two four inch specimens
in less than a foot of water in a seagrass bed in Placencia, Belize, the
second with tentacles extended. The last a hemispherical "adult" specimen of
about a foot diameter in the Bahamas. Close-up at right. |
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Genus Montastrea Blainville 1830. Massive, flat or dome-shaped
colonies. Monocentric and plocoid corallites.
| Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1786),
Lobed Star Coral. Tropical West Atlantic. To ten feet tall. Common. Found as
clusters of columns with domed tops. Living polyps on upper areas of
colonies, dead, eroded below. Corallites appear as uniform in size,
shape. Conical to flush with colony surface. Longer and short septa
alternate, small, compact columellae. Cozumel pix by Di.F below. |
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