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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Faviidae > hexagonal favid corals |
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hexa favid coral awaiting identification * Family Faviidae updated Nov 11 Where seen? This hard coral with irregular hexagonal favid corallites is commonly seen on many of our shores. Features: Colonies seen 10-20cm, sometimes larger. The corallites have shared walls and form irregular cells of different shapes and sizes, but generally with about six sides. The result is a rather irregular pattern of hexagons. In some, the walls are tall and thin, in others rather broad with regular 'teeth' that result in a pattern of bars across the top of the walls. Those seen with tentacles extended had medium length tentacles with rounded tips. The colony is generally a smooth boulder shape, but somewhat irregular and not perfectly spherical. Some form an encrusting hemi-spherical colony. Colours seen include brown, green, blue and purple, usually in pastel shades. Some species of Favid corals recorded for Singapore that have these patterns include: Favites, Goniastrea, Platygyra 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. |
 Sentosa, Jul 05  |
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Maze hexa favid corals on Singapore shores
 St. John's Island, May 07 |
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 Labrador, Jul 05 |
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 Pulau Hantu, Apr 06 |
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more photos of maze hexa favid corals on Singapore shores
northern shores
southern shores part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6
part 7 | part 8 | part 9 | part 10 | part 11 | part 12 | part 13
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.