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Genera Coverage: Alveopora, Goniopora,
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Genus Porites, Family
Poritidae
Part 3 of 4
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By Bob Fenner
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| Porites lichen Dana 1846. Colonies as flat
plates with fused nodules, columns. Corallites in irregular rows
with slightly raised ridges between. Typically yellow in color.
Common to dominant species on reef slopes. Red Sea
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| Porites lobata Dana 1846, Lobe Coral. The
most common coral species in Hawai'i. Found as encrusting
colonies in high wave action areas to fifteen foot high mounds in
protected areas. Yellow, tan to greenish in color. Often with grooves
caused by the Snapping Shrimp Alpheus deuteropus. Below:
close up of an encrusting colony, one showing shrimp space parasite
marking (both Hawai'i) and a huge colony (grow about an inch
tall per year) in the Maldives. At right, Hawaiian specimen with
pink worm parasites (Trematode, flatworm) that Butterflyfishes pick
at, consume, continuing the life cycle. |
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Porites nodifera Klunzinger 1879, Colonies comprised
of compressed columns; usually squared off on top.
Pale brown in color. Sinai 2019. |
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| Porites porites (Pallas 1776), Finger
Coral. Smooth appearing branches with embedded polyps.
Generally tannish to brown in color but may be blue, purple. A
close up below and a very small colony in an Eelgrass bed in Belize
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