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| Isopora
palifera, (Lamarck 1816). Mabul, Saba, Malaysia. /COTW
Characters: Colonies
are encrusting plates or thick ridges, columns or branches. Branches are
usually upright, but are commonly horizontal or irregular in shape,
depending on exposure to wave action. There are usually no axial corallites.
Corallites are smooth, rounded and exsert. The coenosteum is composed of
fine spinules with elaborated tips.
Colour: Pale
cream or brown.
Similar Species: Isopora
cuneata, which has smaller, flatter branches and finer, more
rounded, less elongate corallites. These species are difficult to
distinguish unless they occur together. See also I.
elizabethensis.
Habitat: Occurs
in all reef environments.
Abundance: The
most abundant coral of the northern Great Barrier Reef where it is the
dominant species of most exposed outer reef slopes. Usually less dominant
elsewhere in Australia and most other countries.
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Carijoa riisei, perhaps a Coelogorgia, a
stoloniferan... Cebu |
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Acropora caroliniana, Mabul, Malaysia |
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Acropora granulosa, Mabul, Saba, Malaysia |
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