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Home > Corals
> Leptastreidae > Leptastrea transversa
Updated 9/6/2021
Family
Leptastreidae
INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII
Leptastrea
transversa
Typical form, Shark's Cove,
O'ahu, 30 feet
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Kahe Point, O'ahu, 20 feet
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Kahe Point, O'ahu, 20 feet |
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Kahe Point, O'ahu, 25 feet
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Kapoho tidepool, Hawai'i, 3 feet |
Sharks Cove, O'ahu, 25 feet
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Hale'iwa Trench, O'ahu, 25 feet |
Sharks Cove, O'ahu, 25 feet
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Sharks Cove, O'ahu, 25 feet |
Sharks Cove, O'ahu, 25 feet |
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Hale'iwa Trench, O'ahu, 40 feet |
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Ala Wai harbor, O'ahu, 3 feet
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Firehouse, O'ahu, 20 feet
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Kaiaka Wall, O'ahu, 60 feet
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TRANSVERSE CORAL
Common at scuba depths.
Forms large mounds
and encrustations on elevated surfaces. Deep calices surrounded by
ring of points and a narrow groove separating each calyx.
Granulated septa of 3 sizes. Color
variable, usually golden or greenish brown. Leptastrea
purpurea has smooth borders between calices and smooth septa of
nearly uniform size. Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.
All
coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior
to 1998.
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