Elephant-nose plate
coral
Mycedium elephantotus*
Family Merulinidae
updated
Nov 2019
Where
seen? This hard coral forms a thick plate with large bumps. It is rarely encountered on the intertidal.
Features: Colonies 20-30cm. Encrusting plate, thick. Large cup-shaped corallites (about 1.5cm) that look like a nose. Polyp tentacles are only extended
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 Terumbu Bemban, Apr 16
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Terumbu Bemban, Jun 19
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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.
| Elephant-nose plate corals on Singapore shores |
| Other sightings on Singapore shores |
 Tanah Merah, May 14
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Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on flickr. |
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Mycedium
species recorded for Singapore
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.
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Links
References
- 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 (pdf). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
Supplement No. 22: 69-80.
- Veron, Jen.
2000. Corals
of the World
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia. 3 volumes.
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Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Jun 22
East Coast PCN, Jul 20