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| hard corals text index | photo index |
| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Acroporidae > Montipora sp. |
| Smooth
plate montipora coral Montipora sp.* Family Acroporidae updated Nov 11 Where seen? This hard coral that forms plates with a relatively smooth surface is sometimes seen on some of our Southern shores. Features: Colonies seen 15-20cm, sometimes much bigger. Flat plates sometimes encrusting and with knobs in the centre. The outer edge of the plate is smooth, lacking polyps, usually paler or in a different colour. There may be bumps between the corallites but these are usually tiny and smaller than the polyps. Colours usually brown, with polyps that are brown, white, green or blue. Polyps tiny (0.2cm or smaller) with short tentacles and short body column. 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. |
 Sisters Island, Dec 05  |
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Smooth plate montipora corals on Singapore shores
 Labrador, Jun 05 |
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 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06 |
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 Sisters Island, Dec 05 |
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 Terumbu Bemban, Jul 11 |
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more photos of smooth plate montipora corals on Singapore shores
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
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