Foraminifera source details
Chagos for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Comores for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Eritrea for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Kenya for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Madagascar for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Mauritius for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Mozambique for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Réunion for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Rodrigues for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Seychelles for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Somalia for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Tanzania for Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
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]
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]