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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Faviidae > hexagonal favid corals |
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hexagonal favid corals awaiting identification * Family Faviidae updated Nov 11 Where seen? This hard coral is seen on many of our shores Features: Colonies 20-30cm, usually irregular dome-shaped. Corallites hexagonal (1cm) with a smooth surface in between the corallites. Often seen with tentacles extended. Colours brown, blue and green, smooth surface usually a pale colour, sometimes with polyp centres in a contrasting colour. Some species of Favid corals recorded for Singapore that have these patterns include: Lepastrea purpurea. 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. Sometimes confused with Neat hexa corals (Pseudosiderastrea tayami) which belong to Family Siderastreidae. |
 Sentosa, Jul 05 |
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Smooth hexagonal favid corals on Singapore shores
 Sentosa, Aug 04 |
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 Tuas, Jul 06 |
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 Sentosa, Nov 05 |
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 Terumbu Raya, Jul 11 |
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*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.