Authority (E & H) in Sheppard 1998 <308>. [details]

Authority given as Moseley, 1876 in Faure, G. (1977). [details]

Authority Veron in Sheppard 1998 <308>. Type locality: Chesterfield Reefs, eastern Coral Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]

Authority given as Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 in Faure (1977). Type species: Porites verrucosa Lamarck, 1816 (Veron, 1986). [details]

Zooxanthellate and azooxaxnthellate [details]

Colonies are massive, usually flat. Corallites are cerioid or subplocoid, monocentric, either circular or angular ... [details]

This species has calices whose diameters vary widely between about 10-25 mm. It has thickened septa with strong ... [details]

Colonies are usually ramose or arborescent, bushy or plate-like, rarely encrusting or submassive. Corallites are of ... [details]

Pillow-like colonies, not quite developing into small, loose tables. Yellow to grey, usually with corallite tips ... [details]

Colonies are caespito-corymbose, forming corymbose tables. Horizontal branches are anastomosed. Branches curve up ... [details]

Colonies are thick corymbose plates. Branches are upward-projecting, thick, with several axial corallites which are ... [details]

Colonies are subcorymbose with short thick branches. Redial corallites are of two sizes, are crowded and have ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent to caespitose. Corallites are widely spaced. The coenosteum is fine, thus giving branches ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent or prostrate with tapering branches with blunt ends and one or more immersed axial ... [details]

Colonies are digitate, with mostly terete branches and outward-facing corallites with wide empty calices. Colour: ... [details]

Colonies are caespitose or corymbose, composed of highly anastomosed branches which are thin, with most of their ... [details]

This species forms horizontal tables, often with additional whorls and plates. The branchlets anastomose strongly, ... [details]

Colonies are solid plates or short flattened branches, without axial corallites. Colour: pale cream or brown. ... [details]

This species forms horizontal tables. Branches show considerable anastomosing, so that the central portions of ... [details]

Colonies consist of sprawling prostrate branches with upwardly projecting pointed ends at the periphery. Radial ... [details]

This coral is like a thin Acropora humilis, with an identical colony growth form, this being groups of finger-like ... [details]

Colonies are caespitose, bowl-shaped, or are thick tables, with branches 6-12 mm thick. Axial corallites are often ... [details]

Colonies are shaped like pine trees, with bottlebrush radiating branches of variable length. Colour: yellow or ... [details]

Branches are thick and most colonies contain mixtures of upright branches and horizontal branches, sometimes on a ... [details]

This species forms extensive thickets like Acropora horrida, and can extend across many square metres of loose and ... [details]

Colonies are digitate to corymbose, branches are thick, tapering to a small axial corallite. Radial corallites are ... [details]

Colonies are corymbose plates with or without upward branches. Radial corallites have wide openings and thick lips. ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent to caespitose. Corallites are irregular and the surface of branches is very rough. Polyps ... [details]

Finger-like branches arising vertically in clumps or from basal plates, fingers up to 3 cm thick. Each tapers to a ... [details]

This forms large, low, roughly circular tables or semi-circular brackets. It has a fairly variable form, mostly ... [details]

Colonies are corymbose, corymbose plates or caespitose. Branches are 5-9 mm thick, straight or uniformly curved. ... [details]

Colonies are sub-arborescent, bottlebrush, with upright main branches. Corallites are elongate tubes with round ... [details]

Colonies have many shapes and may be bottlebrush, caespitose or plate-like. Corallites may be tabular or have ... [details]

Colonies have a wide variety of growth forms ranging from bottlebrush to corymbose. They are always very sturdy, ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent, small, usually forming thickets. Branches are slender and straight. Radial corallites are ... [details]

Colonies are corymbose to tubular, with short branches. Redial corallites are all the same size and have prominent ... [details]

Colonies consist of compact thickets of long, terete, straight branches radiating from a solid base. Radial ... [details]

Colonies are small bushes, tending towards developing small tables. Branches are slender. Radial corallites range ... [details]

Colonies are small bushes, tending towards developing small tables. Branches are slender. Radial corallites range ... [details]

The corallum of this species may be encrusting, massive, groups of ridges or may consist of stubby branches. The ... [details]

Colonies are large plates or tables which are up to 25 mm thick and finely structured. Corallites are long, thin ... [details]

Colonies are corymbose, with thick irregular branches. Radial corallites are very irregular giving a spiny ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent to caespito-corymbose. Radial corallites are of mixed sizes, are widely spaced and small, ... [details]

Low, branching colonies, with branches sprawling in all directions, some vertically, others horizontally and then ... [details]

Colonies are corymbose or prostrate, branches are terete. Radial corallites are of two sized, thick-walled. Axial ... [details]

Colonies are mostly corymbose. Branches are tapered, up to 25 mm in diameter. Corallites are of mixed sizes, ... [details]

Colonies are caespito-corymbose with thin branches. Radial corallites are scale-like, highly structured and do not ... [details]

Colonies are wide, flat plates and tables. Curved, tapered, upward-projecting branchlets have a rosette-like ... [details]

Colonies are small plates, sometimes perfectly circular, sometimes semicircles projecting from the side of the ... [details]

Colonies are caespitose, small bushes when small, but develop into brackets or corymbose plates up to almost a ... [details]

Alveopora is distinguished by its very light and porous skeletal structure in which septa are reduced to being rows ... [details]

Colonies are encrusting or have short irregular lobes with rounded surfaces. Corallites are 3.5-4.5 mm in diameter ... [details]

This species grows mainly in the form of convoluted plates, with branch-like projections. Calices are rounded or ... [details]

This species has calical structures which appear more solid than most other species of Alveopora. It is also the ... [details]

Colonies are composed of short irregularly dividing knob-like branches. Corallites are 1.7-2 mm in diameter with ... [details]

Colonies are arborescent with thin tapered branches, without axial corallites. All corallites are radial, and are ... [details]

Branches are widely spaced, less than 1-10 mm in diameter, tapering, with blunt tips. Spinules are distributed ... [details]

This genus is restricted to the extreme west of the Indian Ocean, where it occurs on the African coast and Arabian ... [details]

Many specimens have large pali forming a clear ring around the columella, though in other specimens the pali are ... [details]

Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific and Atlantic. Solitary, attached and cylindrical. ... [details]

Colonies are massive, laminar, encrusting or foliaceous. Corallites are immersed or conical with short, numerous, ... [details]

Colonies are hemispherical with irregular corallites and a smooth coenosteum. Corallites are immersed to conical an ... [details]

Colonies are hemispherical or flattened. Corallites are immersed, crowded, with rounded calices surrounded by ... [details]

Colonies of Astreopora myriophthalma are massive, in the Arabian area rarely more than 25 cm in diameter though up ... [details]

Colonies are massive with corallites like Caulastrea but subplocoid (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]

Barabattoia is an ill-defined genus made up of uncommon species which usually have elongate corallites. Sometimes ... [details]

Colonies are massive. Corallites are plocoid to subdendroid, that is, they are protuberant tubes rather than ... [details]

Colonies are phaceloid with irregularly spaced sprawling corallites. Corallites have one centre with a weakly ... [details]

This is the smallest mussid, but has the typical fleshy polyps of the family. Colonies rarely exceed a diameter of ... [details]

Corallites are 9-14 mm in diameter. Septa are not arranged in cycles and are numerous. Colour: dark red or green ... [details]

Very similar to Euphylia, so much so that the separation of these genera is more a result of historical custom than ... [details]

Colonies are flabello-meandroid with straight-edged septa forming V-shaped valleys. Polyps have tubular tentacles ... [details]

Colonies are phaceloid. Corallites have numerous fine septa and well-developed columellae. Polyps are sometimes ... [details]

Colonies have short sturdy corallites, 10-15 mm in diameter. These frequently have more than one mouth. Costae are ... [details]

Colonies are massive either rounded or hillocky. Corallites are cerioid, without columellae and with Pavona-like ... [details]

Colonies are massive, columnar, encrusting or laminar. Corallites are in short valleys or are irregualrly scattered ... [details]

Colonies are encrusting or massive, sometimes hillocky. Columellae are compacted pinnules set well below the ... [details]

Colonies are thin, often overlapping laminae, with lobed margins. Corallites are irregularly distributed, with ... [details]

Colonies are massive and meandroid. Valleys and walls are of uniform width. Septa are fine and regular, columellae ... [details]

Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific. Colonial, budding occurs from rootlets but these are seen ... [details]

Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific. Colonial, attached and branching. Has alternate budding of ... [details]

Corals are solitary, free-living, flat or dome-shaped, circular or slightly oval in outline, with a central mouth. ... [details]

Corals are circular, helmet-shaped, up to 76 mm in diameter with a concave undersurface. Primary septa are thick ... [details]

Corals are circular domes up to 40 mm in diameter with a concave undersurface. Septa are straight an symmetrical. ... [details]

Corals are oval, flat, with a central dome and a flat undersurface. Primary septa are exsert on the central dome. ... [details]

Corals are circular and flat. Septa are in markedly different orders but each septum is uniform throughout its ... [details]

Discs are very neat and mostly circular. While the discs of some examples show irregularities, these are not nearly ... [details]

Corals are oval, flat, with a central dome and a flat undersurface. Primary septa are exsert on the central dome. ... [details]

This is a solitary mussid, about 5 cm broad and tall. The distinctive features are the very large primary septa ... [details]

All species, except for C. japonica (which is arborescent with axial and radial corallites), are massive or ... [details]

Corallites have clearly alternating costae (easily visible under water). There are 12 primary septa. Colour: ... [details]

This species is distinguished from the other members of the genus by the fact that it has only 10 primary septa. In ... [details]

Colonies are commonly up to 40 cm diameter, often greater. Calices are round, and separated by half or a full ... [details]

Ahermatypic, colonies are dendroid becoming bushy by extratentacular budding. Corallites are tubular with septa ... [details]

Corals are solitary, free-living discs, flat, composed of several fan-shaped segments, with a mouth situated at the ... [details]

Corals consist of fan-shaped segments up to 40 mm in diameter. Thick beaded septa are unequal height. Colour: cream ... [details]

Corals are irregular in outline, up to 70 mm in diameter, generally composed of several wedge-shaped sectors which ... [details]

Colonies dome shaped with an even surface. The skeleton is very dense. Corallites are plocoid. Columellae are ... [details]

Colonies are distinctive, massive, and often exceed 1 metre across. Corallites are round and closely packed, ... [details]

Colonies are encrusting, laminar or foliaceous. Calices are round or oval in shape, immersed to tubular, not ... [details]