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Family Pocilloporidae

HAWAII

Pocillopora verrucosa

Cabo Pulmo, Baja California, Mexico

 

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

Tutuila, American Samoa

WARTY CAULIFLOWER CORAL

Abundant on shallow reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific & Tropical Eastern Pacific but rarely reported from Hawaii.  Branches are cylindrical with blunt tips.  Verrucae large & loosely packed giving a clumpy, warty appearance.

All coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to 1998.