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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Acroporidae > Montipora sp. |
| Plate
montipora coral Montipora sp.* Family Acroporidae updated Nov 2019 Where seen? Forming plates or a thin encrusting layer, this coral is often seen on some of our Southern shores. They can form delicate tiers like a wedding cake!. Features: Colonies seen 15-20cm, sometimes much larger. Flat thin circular plate. Sometimes encrusting with protruding columns or knobs in the centre. The outer edge of the plate is smooth, lacking polyps, usually paler or in a different colour. With bumps between the corallites, these bumps may be smaller or much larger than the polyps. Colours usually brown, sometimes with greenish or bluish polyps. Polyps tiny (0.2cm or smaller) with short tentacles and short body column usually brown, but sometimes also greenish or bluish. There are probably several different species on this page. It's hard to distinguish them without close examination of small features and they are grouped by large external features for convenience of display. |
 Delicate tiers like a wedding cake. Kusu Island, Apr 17 |
 Tiny polyps.  Labrador, Jun 05 |
 Terumbu Bemban, Jul 11  |
 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06  |
 Sisters Island, Dec 05  |
 Raffles Lighthouse, May 04  |
 Terumbu Raya, Mar 11  |
 Pulau Hantu, Jan 10  |
 Pulau Hantu, Jan 10  |
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
| Plate montipora corals on Singapore shores |
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| Other sightings on Singapore shores |
 Pulau Sudong, Jun 10  |
 Pulau Sudong, Jun 10  |
 Pulau Sudong, Dec 09  |
 Pulau Berkas, May 10  |
 Terumbu Buran, Nov 10  |