Corals of the World, Volume 1This will be the most comprehensive review of these complex and colorful organisms ever published by the Australian Institute of Marine Science. It is the end product of 30 years of research. |
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Family Merulinidae 363383 | 5 |
Observing corals 1117 | 11 |
Genus Acanthastrea 1231 | 12 |
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Abundance Acropora Anacropora APO ISLAND appressed Astreopora AUSTRALIA Photograph author 2 Acropora author 2 Montipora BARRIER REEF blue branch tips branchlets CALAMIAN ISLANDS clumps coenosteum ridges Colony surface Colour coral reefs Corallite detail Corallites are immersed corallites are small corymbose cream described in Corals Doug Fenner EGYPT Photograph exposed to strong exsert FLORES fused genera Geoff Kelley growth-forms GUINEA Photograph Habitat HOUTMAN ABROLHOS ISLANDS Identification guides incipient axial corallites INDONESIA Photograph irregularly JAPAN Photograph lagoons large colony Lovell MADAGASCAR Photograph margins metres Montipora Nemenzo Nishihira and Veron Pale brown papillae PAPUA NEW GUINEA PHILIPPINES Photograph polyps radial corallites reef flat Roger Steene RYUKYU ISLANDS Scleractinia Shallow reef environments shallow water Similar species SINAI PENINSULA skeletal SOUTH-WEST AUSTRALIA Photograph Species forming strong wave action submassive Surface detail TANZANIA TANZANIA Photograph tapered Taxonomic note Taxonomic references tentacles thick thickets tuberculae Upper reef slopes upright branches Veron and Wallace verrucae x5 Acropora x5 Characters