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Jigsaw
maze favid corals
awaiting
identification *
Family
Faviidae
updated
Nov 11
Where
seen?
These corals with crooked maze-like corallites that look like jigsaw
puzzles are often seen on many of our Southern shores.
Features: Colonies seen 10-25cm,
sometimes larger. Colonies are generally a smooth hemi-spherical shape.
Some are nearly ball-shaped rather than hemi-spherical.
The corallites form meandering, short, crooked valleys. The result
is a regular fine pattern that resembles a jigsaw puzzle. In some,
the shared walls are tall and thin, in others rather broad. Some have
a groove at the top of the walls. Those seen with tentacles extended
had short tentacles emerging from broad fleshy tissue. Tentacles have
rounded tips. Colours seen include pale beige, brown, green, blue
and purple, often contrasting coloured walls and valleys.
Some species of Favid corals recorded for Singapore that have these
patterns include: Oulophyllia, Platygyra and Goniastrea
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.
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Kusu Island,
Jun 04

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Tanah Merah,
Jun 11
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Jigsaw
maze favid corals on Singapore shores
Sentosa, May
07

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Kusu Island,
Jun 04

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Sentosa, Jun
06

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Labrador,
Jun 05
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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.
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