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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Faviidae > maze favid corals |
| Ladder
maze favid coral awaiting identification * Family Faviidae updated Oct 08 Where seen? This encrusting coral with 'squarish' corallites is sometimes seen on many of our Southern shores. Features: Colonies seen 10-20cm, sometimes larger. The colonies are irregular boulder-shaped, sometimes a curved sausage-shaped. The corallites have shared walls that form narrow irregular oblongs that result in an overall pattern that resembles ladders. 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. |
 Sisters Island, Nov 05 |
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Ladder maze favid corals on Singapore shores
 Kusu Island, May 07 |
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 Sentosa, Jul 05 |
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 Pulau Tekukor, May 07 |
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more photos of ladder maze favid corals on Singapore 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.