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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Faviidae > hexagonal favid corals |
| Honey-comb
hexagonal favid coral awaiting identification * Family Faviidae updated Nov 11 Where seen? This hard coral with large hexagonal favid corallites is sometimes seen on some of our shores. Features: Colonies seen 10-20cm. The corallites large (1-2cm) have shared walls and form large irregular cells with sharp angular edges of various sizes and shapes. The walls are thin and tall, corallites are more tubular with a broad 'base'. The result is a rather irregular pattern of large polygons that resembles a honey comb. The polyps are large and fleshy with a ring of many tentacles around a large oral disk. The colony is generally a boulder shape, but somewhat irregular and not perfectly spherical. Colours seen include brown, yellow, blue and purple. Some species of Favid corals recorded for Singapore that have these patterns include: Favites, Goniastrea and Lepastrea species. It's hard to distinguish them without close examination of small features and they are grouped here by large external features for convenience of display. Sometime confused with Neat hexa corals (Pseudosiderastrea tayami) which has more conical corallites with a narrow 'base'. |
 Pulau Hantu, May 05  |
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Honey-comb hexagonal favid corals on Singapore shores
 Sentosa, Oct 03 |
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 St. John's Island, May 06 |
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 Cyrene Reef, Jun 08 |
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more photos of honey-comb hexagonal favid corals on Singapore shores
northern shores
southern shores part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.