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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Fungiidae |
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mushroom hard coral Podabacia sp.* Family Fungiidae updated Oct 11 Where seen? This plate-like coral with intricate patterns on the surface is sometimes seen on some of our Southern shores, growing attached to coral rubble near living reefs. Features: Flat plate-like 30-40cm in diameter, attached at the base but wavy at the edges. May also be encrusting. The upper side has a distinctive pattern of fine parallel lines perpendicular to the edge. There is a 'waist' in the parallel lines at the mouth of the corallite, i.e., the parallel lines merge at regular intervals. The lines are thin with fine 'teeth'. Tentacles are said to appear only at night. Colours seen include brown, green and blue. May be confused with other plate-like corals. Status and threats: Podabacia motuporensis is listed as globally Near Threatened by the IUCN. |
 Terumbu Raya, Jul 11  |
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mushroom hard corals on Singapore shores
 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06 |
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 Terumbu Bemban, Jul 11 |
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 Raffles Lighthouse, Jul 06  |
 Pulau Tekukor, May 07  |
 Terumbu Raya, May 10  |
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photos of bracket mushroom hard corals on Singapore shores
northern shores
southern shores part 1 | part
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On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
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species recorded for Singapore from Danwei Huang, Karenne P. P. Tun, L. M Chou and Peter A. Todd. 30 Dec 2009. An inventory of zooxanthellate sclerectinian corals in Singapore including 33 new records. **the species found on many shores in Danwei's paper. in red are those listed as threatened on the IUCN global list.
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References
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Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia. 3 volumes.
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