Frank Lipfert, Deutschland
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Description: Colonies are massive or encrusting, with an undulating surface. Corallites are less than 3 millimetres diameter and tightly compacted. Septa are in two unequal orders of 12 each and sometimes have a third order. Paliform lobes are small or absent. The coenosteum is covered with short spinules.
Color: Pale greenish-yellow or dark green.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Rare.
Similar Species: Cyphastrea japonica, which forms less massive colonies, commonly has ‘groove and tubercle’ formations and has two very unequal orders of septo-costae.
Description: Colonies are massive or encrusting, with an undulating surface. Corallites are less than 3 millimetres diameter and tightly compacted. Septa are in two unequal orders of 12 each and sometimes have a third order. Paliform lobes are small or absent. The coenosteum is covered with short spinules.
Color: Pale greenish-yellow or dark green.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Rare.
Similar Species: Cyphastrea japonica, which forms less massive colonies, commonly has ‘groove and tubercle’ formations and has two very unequal orders of septo-costae.
