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Updated 9/6/2021

Family Merulinidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Merulina scabricula



Blue Corner, Palau, 30 feet
 

Taveuni, Fiji
   
 

Waya, Indonesia

 
   
 

Nila, Indonesia, 25 feet
 

Palau
   


Palau, 8 feet
 
 
   
 

Beqa Lagoon Resort, Fiji, 10 feet
 

 

 Wakatobi, Indonesia, 25 feet

 

 
   

Tutuila, American Samoa

 

ROUGH MERULINA

Common on protected reefs and dropoffs.  Variable, encrusting plates with contorted branches with spreading fan-like ends, narrow radiating ridges with irregular rasp-like septa, golden brown with contrasting margins.  Merulina ampliata has larger ridges with more uniform septa.  East Africa to Japan and Samoa.

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