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| hard corals text index | photo index |
| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Acroporidae > Montipora sp. |
| Ridged
montipora coral Montipora sp.* Family Acroporidae updated May 13 Where seen? This hard coral with an obvious ridged texture is sometimes seen on some of our Southern shores. Features: Colonies seen 15-20cm, sometimes much bigger. Branches, columns or knobs arising from the centre of an encrusting base. Branches angular, flattened and irregular. The tips of the branches may be squarish and flattened, forming fan-shaped or knobbly tips, white and smooth, lacking polyps. Large ridges and bumps between the corallites, about the same size as the polyps. Colours usually brown, pinkish, greenish with brown polyps. Polyps tiny (0.2cm or smaller) with short tentacles and short body column. May be mistaken for some branching Pore coral species which look similar. For convenience of display, all branching species that resemble Montipora are featured here. 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. |
 Kusu Island, May 07  |
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 Sentosa Serapong, Jul 11 |
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 Terumbu Pempang Tengah, Apr 12  |
 Kusu Island, Feb 07  |
 Pulau Semakau, Apr 08  |
 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06  |
 Beting Bemban Besar, May 10  |
 Raffles Lighthouse,Jul 6  |
Ridged montipora corals on Singapore shores
| Photos for free download from wildsingapore flickr |
*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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