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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Faviidae > maze favid corals |
| Encrusting
maze favid corals awaiting identification * Family Faviidae updated Oct 08 Where seen? These encrusting corals with maze-like corallites are sometimes seen on some of our Southern shores. Features: Colonies seen 10-20cm, sometimes larger. The colonies form encrusting layers over coral rubble, some are thick, others are thinner. In some the colony is an encrusting circular flat disk. The corallites form meandering walls with long valleys. 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 short tentacles with rounded tips. Colours seen include yellow, brown, green and baby blue. There are probably several different genera and 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. |
 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06  |
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Encrusting maze favid corals on Singapore shores
 Sentosa, Apr 07 |
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 Lazarus, Jul 04 |
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 Sisters Island, Aug 07 |
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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.