Locally common on shallow reefs. Encrusting
plates with some twisted branches with a pitted appearance, shallow calices 1.5mm in diameter
with 6 pali between rounded or sharp ridges. Pale brown, green,
gray, or pink. Porites vaughani is also plate-like but
calices have 8 pali, while Porites rus
has calices smaller than 1mm. Sri Lanka to Okinawa and east to
Samoa.
All
coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior
to 1998.
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