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Family Poritidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Porites nigrescens

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 30 feet

ROUGH FINGER CORAL

Locally common in protected lagoons & channels.  Forms clumps of coarse tapering branches with square ends, calices depressed between sharp ridges.  Cream, yellowish-green, or brown.  Indo-Pacific, Red Sea to Samoa.