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Genera Coverage: Alveopora, Goniopora,
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Genus Porites, Family
Poritidae
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By Bob Fenner
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Porites lobata
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Porites spp. With small (1-2 mm.) corallites, these smooth
honey-comb appearing coral colonies look like honeycomb up close. /WA Corals:
massive, branching or laminar colonies • corallites tiny • colony surface smooth
• plates can resemble Montipora • arrangement of corallite structure used to
distinguish between species
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Some guesses at identifying Porites to species level:
| Porites astreoides Mustard Hill Coral. Form
encrusting, humped, joined colonies in shallows to domes in calmer, deeper water. Occur
mostly in light yellow and browns.
Three Bahamian specimens below. First two from the shallows are
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