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Genus Porites, Family Poritidae
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By Bob Fenner

Porites lobata

Porites spp. With small (1-2 mm.) corallites, these smooth honey-comb appearing coral colonies look like honeycomb up close. /WA Corals: massive, branching or laminar colonies • corallites tiny • colony surface smooth • plates can resemble Montipora • arrangement of corallite structure used to distinguish between species

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Some guesses at identifying Porites to species level:

Porites astreoides Mustard Hill Coral. Form encrusting, humped, joined colonies in shallows to domes in calmer, deeper water. Occur mostly in light yellow and browns. Three Bahamian specimens below. First two from the shallows are close ups. Cozumel close-up by Di.F at right.

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